# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S222
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222 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

ments be abandoned with the 1956—57 school year and that the
institution’s subsidy arrangements be included regularly in the
approved pattern of budget preparation and review.

ACTION
Concerning the “Portland Experiment” Committee 1 drew up
the following resolution (No. 17), which was adopted:
Wuereas, In 1951, Concordia in Portland — under the direction
of the Board for Higher Education — began an experiment with
the 6-4-4 plan of secondary school organization; and

Wuereas, The proposed dropping of the sophomore high school
year at Portland threatened to be calamitous as far as the entire
future of the entire institution was concerned; therefore be it

Resolved, That

1. The so-called “Portland Experiment” be terminated, effec-
tive with the start of the 1956—57 school year.

2. The approved pattern of organization be the upper three
years of the conventional secondary school pattern and the two
junior college years.

3. Existing special budget subsidies and financial arrangements
be abandoned with the 1956—57 school year and that the institu-
tion’s subsidy arrangements be included regularly in the approved
pattern of budget preparation and review.

The Junior College Level of Pastoral and Teacher Training

In recent years, the junior college level of training, or the
freshman and sophomore college years, has been the most rapidly
growing and the largest level in the entire training program. This
is also the level at which Synod has most recently added two
units, namely, the junior college department at Austin and the
junior college department at Portland. Some of the recent expan-
sion in enrollment on this level is the direct result of the recent
introduction of women teacher training at the junior colleges and
the resultant rapid increase in this student classification. With
the introduction of women teacher training on the junior college
level at Portland, at Concordia, at Austin, and at Edmonton since
the Houston Convention, this greatly needed type of supplementary
training is now found on every junior college campus except
Milwaukee.

As the junior colleges reach their maximum present enroll-
ment, Synod is confronted with two basic questions. What is the
optimum and the maximum size of junior colleges only as integral

.parts of the training system? And what is the case for and against

a certain number of junior colleges? The restricted campus area
presently available to important units in the junior college pro-

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