# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S161
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 161

der to achieve a less cumbersome method of calling ex-
e tructors and assistant professors to associate profes-
Board for Higher Education
mends, for all colleges, but not the theological semi-
ollowing procedure:
tjeach college and seminary president be required to
the Board for Higher Education and the President of
iennial reports evaluating all appointed personnel serv-
hé institution’s staff and indicating the local administration’s
ith regard to such personnel. The Board will add these
ts file of personal and academic data on potential faculty
and will also make them available to all electors for the
-involved.

t'a board of control wishing to call an instructor or an
fessor to an associate professorship will, upon recom-
the college president, apply to the Board for Higher
r permission to fill the vacancy and will, at the same
e man it has chosen for advancement. Together with
of Control’s recommendation, the president will be held
a.complete report on this person’s performance at the
all detail on his experience in church work.
e Board for Higher Education can see its way clear to
he.candidate’s eligibility for this type of election procedure,
on yey. complete details with regard to the position and the
-all electors, who shall then have the option of voting
ative or of requesting a formal meeting in order to
re the relevant detail in open consultation before
“proposal. The electors’ reaction to the original pro-
be registered in the office of the Board for Higher Edu-
30 days after receipt of the request for such election.

event that unanimous approval is not conveyed by
; the local administration shall be so notified by the
‘Higher Education, and the school shall then have the
mtinuing under the arrangement obtaining prior to its
rmission to call the candidate or of Tequesting the
nm procedure.

fructors and assistant professors shall be eligible for the
f this type of call procedure only after a minimum of
, Service at a given school unless the person involved
y had a minimum of three years of service in a con-