# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1989_S147
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Resolved, That Bylaw 6.91 regarding eligibility for ad-
mission to the colloquy program be amended as follows:

4. communicant members in good standing of a syn-
odical congregation who belong to a special ethnic or
linguistic group, who have graduated from an aceredited
eellege had a college level education and who have had
considerable experience in church work; or

5. communicant members in good standing of a syn-
odical congregation who are mature and have long years
of experience in church work and have graduated from
an accredited college.;

and be it further

Resolved, That present Bylaw 6.97 c be amended as

follows:

c. After admission to the pastoral colloquy program,
a minimum of two full academic years of instruction at
one of the Synod’s theological seminaries, at least one
and one-half of which shall be in residence, as well as
a vicarage under the seminary’s auspices, ordinarily
shall be required of i i

all other colloquy candidates.

Action: Adopted as amended (8).

(Delegates agreed to delete the first whereas of the original
motion which stated, “Whereas, previous synodical conventions
have repeatedly amended the Bylaws of the Constitution regard-
ing admission to the pastoral ministry by colloquy since 1979 due
to the changing character of applicants and the shifting needs of
the church body.”)

To Revise Process for Election
of Synodical College
and Seminary Presidents

RESOLUTION 6-09A
Overtures 6-38, 6-40A—C (CW, pp. 251-52)

Wuereas, Utilization of the procedure prescribed in By-
law 6.11 for the selection of presidents for the colleges and
seminaries of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
(LCMS) has demonstrated the desirability of making the
process more time efficient; and

Wuereas, A long vacancy in the office of president at
a synodical institution of higher education is detrimental
because interim leadership for the school is for a short and/
or indefinite period of time; therefore be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 6.11 be revised to read as follows:

6.11 Election

a. As soon as an impending vacancy in the office is
known the Board of Regents, with prior consent of the
Board for Higher Education Services, shall issue in an
official periodical of the Synod a call for the nomination
of candidates for the presidency of the institution. The
call for nominations shall describe the office and qual-
ifications desired to fill it.

b. Candidates may be nominated by congregations
of the Synod, the Board for Higher Education Services,
the Board of Regents, and the faculty of the institution.

c. All nominations must be filed with the secretary
of the Board of Regents within 9@ 60 days of the date
of its published request, unless the request sets a later
date. Persons nominated may decline to be candidates
and their names will be removed from the list of nomi-
nees. Nominees who allow themselves to be listed as can-
didates will be asked to pledge, if called, to render a

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decision within 15 days of receipt of the call, unless
granted an extension by the Board of Regents. The sec-
retary of the Board of Regents shall thereupen publish
the-nemes-ofthe-neminees in an official periodical of
the Synod, e- ; +
1 ne, blished

later-date—The-seeretary-of the Beard _ef Regents shalt

fieial-_periedieal ofthe Syned; the names of the nominees
who have permitted themselves to be candidates and the
date on which the election is to be held, which shall not
be less than 30 days after the date of the publication of
the names of the candidates.

d. All recommendations, statements of qualifications
of any nominees, or objections to any nominee with rea-
sons therefore, must be filed with the Board of Regents
before the time fixed for the election. If a charge of false
doctrine or offensive life is registered, the eleeters Board
of Regents shall investigate and reach a decision on such
charge before proceeding with the election.

e. A committee composed of three faculty members
elected by the faculty and of two board members elected
by the board shall make a careful analysis of the needs
of the institution, the requirements of the Synod, and
the academic and personal qualifications of the nomi-
nees. To this end the secretary of the Board of Regents
shall make available to this committee all information,
recommendations, and objections which he shall re-
ceive. On the basis of these studies a committee of fac-
ulty members elected by the faculty shall submit to the
electors evaluations and pertinent recommendations re-
garding the candidates who have been proposed.

f. At a meeting of the Board of Regents held to elect
a president, there shall be present and voting as elec-
tors: the members of the Board of Regents as a group
with one vote (the District President not voting with the
board); the President of the synodical District or his
official representative with a distinct vote; the President
of the Synod or his official representative with one vote;
and the chairman of the Board for Higher Education
Services or his official representative with one vote.

g. The election shall be held on the day designated
in the notice published in the official periodical of the
Synod or as soon thereafter as feasible. The electors
shall give due consideration to the recommendations
and statements of qualifications and objections submit-
ted on behalf of all nominees A majority of the electors,
with the members of the Board of Regents now voting
as individuals, may add names to any preferred list sup-
plied by the faculty committee after consultation with
the faculty committee.

h. The election of a president shall require three of
four elector votes. If the electors are unable to complete
the election, they may postpone the election and, if de-
sirable, request the Board of Regents to issue a new call
for nominations.

hk: i. The Board of Regents shall extend the formal
call promptly after the election and submit its action to
an official periodical of the Synod for publication.

i,j. Whenever a call is declined, the chairman of the
Board of Regents shall give notice in an official peri-
odical of Synod and shall promptly call another meeting
of the electors, at which meeting the call may be reissued
or another person may be elected from among the re-
maining candidates, or the Board of Regents may be
requested by the electors to issue a new call for
candidates.

Action: Adopted as amended (14).

(In session 10, the convention declined Resolution 6-09 after
having amended it by deleting the words, and the elected repre-
sentatives of the faculty as a group with one vote and changing
the number of votes required for election from five to four. An
amendment calling for deletion of the phrase, shall give notice in
an official periodical of the Synod and, had been declined.

A motion was later made and adopted by a vote of 533 to 421
for reconsideration of the action declining the amended resolution