# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S120
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120 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

p. 266: “In our opinion (Board for Parish Education) even the
present plans for increased teacher training will not supply the
demand. It is obvious, too, that our schools are harmed by
unsuitable teachers. District educational leaders point it out to us,
and they fear that such harm will affect the school cause also
in the future... . We shall need far more teachers than are now
in prospect”; and

Wuereas, Classroom facilities for instructing 600 students and
chapel facilities for 600 students have been built at Concordia
College, St. Paul, through the generous grants of funds by Synod
during the past triennium, thus providing room for additional
180 students beyond the present enrollment; and

Wuereas, The creation of a third terminal teacher-training
institution, granting a three- or four-year Lutheran teacher’s
diploma, would have little or no effect upon the capacity and more-
than-capacity enrollments enjoyed by the existing two teachers
colleges, because of the favorable geographic location of Concordia
College, St. Paul; and

Wuereas, The enrollment of women college students in the
teacher-training course at Concordia College, St. Paul, has grown
rapidly and steadily, from 20 in 1950 to 150 in 1955, and the outlook
for continued stable capacity enrollment is very promising; and

Wuereas, In close proximity to Concordia there is a large,
well-equipped school, whose facilities could be used for practice-
teaching purposes, and the professional and academic standing of
our College would assure well-trained teachers; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Minnesota District memorialize Synod in its
convention at St. Paul, Minn., June 1956, and request Synod:

1. To expand the course offerings at Concordia College, St. Paul,
to include a third and a fourth year of teacher training on college
level, in order that a larger number of fully qualified women
teachers may be supplied to the Christian day schools of Synod; and

2. To authorize the Board for Higher Education, together with
the two existing teachers colleges of Synod at River Forest and
Seward, to work out the details of the newly adopted program
of expansion and to initiate this new program as soon as feasible.

Minnesota Disraicr
ARNOLD E. WENGER, Secretary

ACTION

This matter was disposed of by Resolution 25 of Committee 1

under Reports 117 to 122.

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