# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S996
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 205

Modify the present two-year-plus-one-summer arrange-
. follows: The junior colleges will require their women

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we General Psychology 3 semester hours
“'Gurvey of Elementary Education | 3 semester hours
oF ‘Observation of, and Participation in,
Classroom Activities 3 semester hours

c. At the end of the two-year course the junior colleges will
not grant a teacher's certificate, but at most a general education

diploma.

‘“g. All two-year women supply teachers will be required to
attend one summer at one of the teachers’ colleges before beginning
their first year of teaching.

e. Both the junior college and teachers’ college will send an
individual report on a prepared form to the Board for Higher Ed-
ucation (or some agency designated by the Board), which issues
a provisional certificate that is valid for a three-year period from
the date issued and may be renewed for three years provided the
student attends summer school or does extension work at River
Forest or Seward with a minimum of 16 term hours’ or ten se-
mester hours’ credit during each three-year period. The courses
taken must be applicable toward the three- and four-year diploma.
The renewal of the provisional certificate will, if necessary, be
continued until the applicant reaches the minimum training stand-
ards established by Synod. ,

f. During the emergency, the students at River Forest and
Seward, while not being granted a two-year diploma, will be given
the same privilege as in paragraphs d and e.

g. With the collaboration of the District President concerned,
the Board for Higher Education (or an agency designated by the
Board) will supervise and follow up the holders of the provisional
certificates to prevent lapses, and request congregations to make
it financially possible for the woman supply teacher to take addi-
tional courses, with the understanding that the recipient will serve
that congregation for a minimum of one school year after taking
a congregation-financed summer or extension course.

h. The teachers’ colleges will issue the three- and four-year
diplomas as heretofore and encourage all women to take these
rather than the two-year-plus-one-summer program as soon as
the supply of women teachers approximates the demand. If and
when the present emergency ceases, the whole problem will be
reassessed with a view toward having the training of all women
approach that of the male teacher. The Board for Higher Educa-