# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S84
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

84 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

valiant action of Synod to train far more teachers. We showii

rejoice and thank our Lord that He is giving us such a harvest
the schools and should pray for more.

Your Board for Parish Education submits the follo
remedial measures for consideration:

1. Since the ratio of men teachers to women teachers is nog
almost 50-50, with men still in a slight majority; since the anny
demand for new teachers is not caused by the long-serving insta
men teachers, but by the large element of women and other
porary teachers; and since the long-range solution of the pre
intolerable situation is more regular men teachers, because of th
longer service, we recommend an immediate effort to increase ‘
ratio of men to women at least to 60-40, to set as a goal 150
175 men graduates a year, and to re-educate our congregatior
to call and absorb them.

2. Meanwhile, since the annual turnover among women teach
is so great, we recommend a. higher production of women teach
than the 375 a year anticipated by the teacher-training institutiogg
believing that the demand for new teachers of all types will rea i
1,000 or more a year in two or three years. Synod has the po!
of training its pastors and teachers in its own professional sch )
Today Synod is supplying only 40 per cent of the total demand
teachers.

3. Since present dormitory space and teaching staffs at.
teacher-training institutions are not sufficient to attain a goalia™y
150 to 175 men graduates a year, and five or six times as n
women teachers with two to four years of training, we urge
Synod provide the necessary increased facilities at those instituti

4. Since an excessive teacher demand is upon us now and

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increasing from year to year, and since it may be impossible
Synod to meet the demand even with increased facilities at/
present teacher-training institutions, we recommend the follow
-additional measures for consideration:

a. The gradual elimination of the. high school departme
Seward, so that the institution could be devoted entirely to co:
students, and necessary arrangements made whereby a high
be maintained jointly by the District and Synod. .

b. The earliest possible introduction of a teacher-tra
course at Bronxville.

c. Increased enrollment of prospective teacher students 4
our preparatory colleges. :

d. The enlistment of Valparaiso University as a so