# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S198
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198 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Recommended: 6.61 Institutional Educational Policies

Each faculty shall adopt rules and regulations for the admis-
sion, transfer, dismissal, or withdrawal of students, fix the stand-
ards of scholarship to be maintained by students, determine
criteria for their promotion, graduation, or failure, act on recom-
mendations in the matter of granting certificates, diplomas, and
such academic or honorary degrees as may be conferred lawfully
by the institution, and develop, adopt, and keep under continuous
review other policies for the academic and the student life of
the institution. These rules, regulations, standards, criteria, and
policies are to be subject to, and consistent with, such standards
and policies as Synod may authorize the Board for Higher Edu-
cation to develop.

Such rules, regulations, standards, criteria, and policies are
to be administered and applied by the administrative officers of
the institution.

Present: 6.69 Grants for Advanced Study

The Boards of Control of Synod’s colleges and seminaries shall
recommend subsidies for university study by faculty personnel
when such additional study is made mandatory or desirable by
local circumstances beyond the control of the faculty personnel
involved (e.g., addition of courses, request to assist in library,
guidance work, requirements of achieving accreditation, require-
ments of maintaining accreditation, additions which Synod required
the school to make to its program, etc.). Such recommendations
are to become effective upon review and approval by the Board
for Higher Education.

Recommended: 6.69 Grants for Advanced Study

The Boards of Control of Synod’s institutions shall recom-
mend subsidies for advanced study by instructional and adminis-
trative personnel when such additional study is made mandatory
or desirable by local circumstances beyond the control of the per-
sonnel involved (e.g., addition of courses, request to assist in
library administration, guidance work, requirements of achieving
or maintaining accreditation, modifications which Synod requires
the school to make to its program, etc.). Such recommendations
are to become effective upon review and approval by the Board
for Higher Education.

Present: 6.71 Leave of Absence After Ten Years

The Board of Control, with approval of the Board for Higher
Education, may grant any member of the faculty who has served
ten years a leave of absence for one semester with pay or for one

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