# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S170
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170 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

to which consideration was given, particularly in identifying
area of responsibility of this Board when it is in contact with o ‘
agencies in this field. ;
On the basis of its findings, therefore, this Board
Recommends that Synod decline to change the designa
“Board for Higher Education.”

Student Aids

In accordance with the directive of the 1950 convention
Synod, the Board for Higher Education convened student
(Indigent Student Fund) representatives from all parts of S
for a conference on the principles of student aid as accepted b:
Milwaukee Convention. Dr. Albert G. Huegli, Dean of Stus
at the River Forest teachers’ college, again served the Board’
special consultant in this area.
The findings and recommendations of this conference are.,
subject of a memorial to Synod (p. 106 ff.).

Faculty Residence Options

In Resolution 34, Proceedings, page 304, the Milwaukee fe!
vention authorized a series of options which would be availabk
local administrations and to the Board for Higher Education
the method of housing called faculty members is to be dete
One of the options included in Synod’s resolution autho

a “long-term sale to faculty people now occupying off- ~campy
purchased synodical faculty housing. .

During the past triennium your Board conveyed several re
mendations for the consideration of the Board of Directors, |
has not succeeded in securing the concurrence of the Boz
Directors in any of these plans for the long-term sale of
housing to faculty people. Only one sale has been cons
and this was done on the basis of a cash contract.

In view of the vast amount (39 houses—cost $506
of off-campus housing, much of it obsolescent, which Synod alr
owns, the Board for Higher Education cannot feel that contin
of present policies is a good investment. for the Church. Ata
same time there is no doubt that much additional property.
be purchased (St.Louis and River Forest alone are requeg
15 additional staff members), even if progress were made .a
early date in the area of assisting faculty personnel to p
housing. Under present policy, every called faculty member
be provided, somehow, with a place to live.

Another complicating factor is the progress of the re
program. By the end of the coming triennium at least 25
members are expected to be in retirement or on modified .