# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S59
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 59

The findings of the Curriculum Commission and the faculty
will receive the careful study of the Board of Control before their
adoption and presentation to the Board for Higher Education for
ratification.

Grants

On December 11, 1955, Concordia shared in the good news
which reached accredited private and church-related colleges in
the nation regarding the grants made by the Ford Foundation.
Tentative information places the figure at $182,300, and the pro-
ceeds from the investment of the grant are to be used for the next
decade to increase professors’ salaries. The action taken by the
Ford Foundation should serve as a real stimulant to Synod to
recognize a crucial problem in our system of higher education.

Concordia has benefited annually through the kind services of
The Lutheran Church Charities Fund, an organization of congre-
gations in the Northern Illinois and English Districts. Funds have
been made available for our student-employment program, which
serves as a boon to students in need and provides maintenance
services to Synod at minimal costs.

The Scholarship Program has been stepped up annually.
$4,800 in scholarships and grants-in-aid are now available to the
college for distribution in the 1956—57 academic year. A Good

Samaritan Fund has recently been established to meet the needs
of worthy students. With costs of higher education rising steadily,
and more of the auxiliary costs reflected in student fees, there
must be an increased concern for the average student who cannot
afford to be diverted too extensively from his academic pursuits.
Grants-in-aid to such students are becoming increasingly

necessary.
Plans for the Future

With more doors opened to us in elementary and secondary
Lutheran education and with standards for teacher certification
rising in every state of the Union, plans for the future are both
quantitative and qualitative in their character.

More and better teachers are needed. This will require highly
selective recruitment, well-developed and thoroughly Christ-
centered teaching, necessary additions in teaching staff of the
highest ability and character, and considerably expanded facilities
for teaching, learning, and Christian living.

In response to a request from the Board for Higher Education
to submit a “balanced campus” approach to a presentation of
facilities needed to achieve the purposes of the school, we looked
to a future which serves a minimum of 1,000 students in the
reasonably near future. We are persuaded that substantial and
daring action will be needed to meet the quantitative and quali-
tative demands of a living, growing church.