# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S103
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 103

culty Ranking, Equality, Tenure, Balance,
4 and Procurement

e 1947 Centennial Convention of our Synod in Chicago
tions’ were adopted relative to the ranking of faculty mem-
* Synod’s teachers’ colleges and preparatory schools. Four
rere established: assistant, instructor, associate professor,
fessor. Since that time a fifth rank, that of assistant pro-
as been added. The positions of assistant, instructor, and
t; professor are on the uncalled level.

undersigned, members of the teaching staff at Concordia
‘3:College, River Forest, IL, respectfully urge the Delegate
mn assembled in Houston to reconsider the resolutions

blished the present ranking system at our schools.
ly we urge the adoption of the following recommen-

I. Faculty Ranking

he present system of ranking be abolished,

tity ranking is not a prerequisite to accreditation of
Approximately 30 per cent of accredited teachers’ col-

ig.the United States do not use the procedure of ranking.

Howard Elmer, Ed. D., “The Administration of Faculty
in State Teachers Colleges,” p. 21.)

-synodical schools are junior colleges and high schools,

yn: which faculty ranking is not practiced.

the permanent call as the accepted procedure of agree-

pastors and teachers in Synod, a divergence of procedure,

loyment on an uncalled basis with an uncertain tenure,

cult, and in many cases impossible, to gain the services

qualified for a position. -

ranking will, we feel, ultimately become a factor that

secularize our educational system on the higher level.

; actors that shift the stimulus for growth in learning

teaching ability to an outside source that is unde-

use it is man-motivated. It introduces the possible
r and bargaining for salary and rank. Ultimately

ve to compete with secular schools for the services of

instructors once our schools have become geared to the

de of procedure.
Il. Faculty Equality
L called members of the faculty shall have equal status.

Her to avoid categorizing, stratifying, and thus introduc-
ency toward disintegrating a group of colleagues in which