# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S127
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 127

nistration reports also that it already observes cer-
ntages which are inherent in the plan:

is a higher per-capita cost of operation in direct
reduction of the student body;

less opportunity for training the students in for-
re is a reduced program of religious instruction (by

the’1950 directive could not be completely carried out
i triennium, the Board for Higher Education
ends that during the next triennium the plan be ex-
riginally authorized and that it be continued long
permit an intelligent evaluation of its feasibility and
and your Board
ends, further, that the Board for Higher Education be
adjust budget subsidies and arrangements as may
ssary to achieve the satisfactory extension of the ex-
educed enrollments make it difficult for the school
the educational services which Synod requires.

Accreditation

ard is happy to report continuing progress under the

the 1947 convention, which authorized the Board to

d's institutions in seeking accreditation with regional
Since the Milwaukee Convention the following schools

‘ed such status:

dia Teachers College at Seward, Nebr., has heen ac-

he North Central Association of Colleges and Sec-

igh school department at Portland, Oreg., has been
the Northwest Association;

high school department at St. Paul, Minn., has been
the North Central Association.
the college department at Austin, Tex., has been .ac-
the Texas Association of Colleges and Universities.
our new accreditations, the most critically necessary