# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S180
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180 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

our synod, the Board believes that a new section should be
to the provisions covering membership on our faculties.

It is recognized that the vast majority of such facul:
sonnel is rarely in contact with the ministerial and teacher tim
section of our colleges and that there is frequently no al
to the action taken on an individual campus. However,
expansion of the practice could have significant implicatig
our entire system, the Board for Higher Education

Recommends that Section 6.54 be added to the curren
book provisions and that it be worded: “All new appointm,
the teaching staff of a synodical college are subject to the
consent of the Board for Higher Education.” 4

Handbook Sections 6.57 and 6.62

According to the official Proceedings, the 1950 conventicg
to take action on the proposed adjustment of these sectio: é
related circumstances make it apparent that the failure’-¢
action was an oversight, since the floor committee had vo
recommend adoption.

Even though the convention did not take action on ei
these sections, 6.57 does appear in the Handbook, while
not printed.

The Board for Higher Education therefore

Recommends that formal action be taken at this conven’
approve the revised wording of both sections, so that the
appear in the Handbook upon proper authority:

“6.57. Salary Schedules.

“The salary schedules for all administrative and tea
sonnel, paid in whole or in part from the synodical funds,
fixed by the Fiscal Conference upon recommendation of th
for Higher Education to the Board of Directors. Any
interim adjustments between fiscal conferences shall be
the Board for Higher Education if they can be undertaken:
exceeding the total appropriation for higher education in.
year involved.

“6.62. Placement Officers.

“All institutions which offer terminal training for prof
workers i in Synod shall be held to conform their placement’
to the synodical provisions for distribution of candidates‘'é
ministry and the teaching profession. To effectively exe
fix responsibility for its placement policy, each institutio:
terminal professional training shall appoint to its admi
staff a faculty member (not the President) who’ is to.’s