# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S60
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

That the faculty and the Board of Control of Concordia Teach-
ers College, River Forest, with the approval of the Board for
Higher Education, be authorized to initiate in the near future
a “fifth year” graduate Program, leading to the Master’s degree

3. The overwhelming majority of our teachers responding to
4 questionnaire on graduate work expressed a conviction that the
Synodical teachers colleges should offer graduate work and indi-
cated a readiness to attend.

after the Houston Convention in 1953, have demonstrated the
feasibility of establishing a fifth-year Program at River Forest with
a minimum of additional cost and within the framework of the
expectations of the accrediting agencies,

Request: 2. High School Teacher Training

That Concordia Teachers College, with the approval of the
Board for Higher Education, be authorized to introduce a program
of high school teacher training.

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