# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S192
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192 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Recommended Handbook Revisions Desirable as Administrative
Adjustments

In recent years Synod has carried on a thoroughgoing revision
of its regulations and policies gathered together in the synodical
Handbook. Your Board has repeatedly recommended adjustments,
additions, and improvements in these important statements of the
constitutional law by which Synod’s work in all areas is neces-
sarily governed. Your Board recommends the following altera-
tions and changes in the Handbook provisions affecting Synod’s
colleges and seminaries and their work. It believes these changes,
intended to clarify, to simplify, to standardize, and to eliminate
that which is obsolete, to be in the best interest of Synod’s work.

Specific explanation and comment can be supplied in each
case. For those who do not come to the convention with copies
of the synodical: Handbook, the old and present wording and the
recommended new wording are reproduced for ready comparison.

Handbook Revisions Recommended to the 1956 Convention
as Administrative Adjustments

Present: 6.51 Members of Teaching Staff
and
Present: 6.52 Members of Teaching Staff at Seminaries

Present: 6.51 Members of Teaching Staff

The teaching staff of each educational institution of Synod,
except the theological seminaries, shall be composed of all those
administrative officials and teachers who are called by the electors
or who are appointed by the Board of Control. Five classifications
shall receive official recognition.

a. Student Assistants: They shall be appointed by the Board
of Control upon recommendation by the president of the institu~-
tion and shall be recruited primarily from the ranks of under-
graduate and graduate students of the seminaries and the teachers
colleges. The original appointment shall be for one year and
may be renewed by the Board of Control for a second year.
Extension of the appointment beyond two years shall require the
consent of the Board for Higher Education.

b. Instructors: They shall be appointed by the Board of Con-
trol upon recommendation by the president of the institution.
Such appointment shall be for two-year terms and may be renewed
in the manner prescribed for the original appointment. If reap-

pointment is not contemplated, Boards of Control shall so notify .

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