# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S223
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194 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

Present: 6.52 Members of Teaching Staff at Seminaries

At the theological seminaries the teaching staff shall be com-
posed of those administrative officials and teachers who are called
by the electors or who are appointed by the Board of Control.
Four classifications shall receive recognition.

a. Fellows. They shall be appointed by the Board of Control
upon recommendation of the president of the institution and shall

-be recruited primarily from the ranks of the graduate students.

The original appointment shall be for one year and may be re-
newed by the Board of Control for a second year. There shall be
no additional appointments beyond the second year for fellows.
Each fellow shall be placed under the direct supervision of an
individual professor and shall at the same time be enrolled as
resident student in the graduate school. Personnel in this classi-
fication shall not participate in faculty meetings, nor shall such
personnel hold any administrative office in the institution.

b. Instructors. They shall be appointed by the Board of
Control. Such appointment shall be for two-year terms and may
be renewed in the manner prescribed for the original appointment.
Whenever an appointment to an instructorship is contemplated,
the president of the institution shall make the recommendation to
the Board of Control; however, at a time sufficiently prior to final
notification of appointment, the names and qualifications of per-
sons proposed for appointment to seminary instructorships shall
be submitted to the entire membership of the electoral board,
as constituted in Section 6.101 of the Handbook, so that there will
be an opportunity for such members to express any possible dis-
sent. There shall be no restriction on the number of reappoint-
ments which may be offered to an instructor; however, if re-
appointment is not contemplated, the Board of Control shall so
notify the instructor ‘six months prior to the expiration of the
current appointment. Instructors shall be held to attend regular
faculty meetings as advisory members upon the call of the Presi-
dent. They shall not be entitled to vote.

c. Special Lecturers. They shall be appointed for specified
series of lectures or as assistants in specified courses by the Board
of Control upon recommendation of the President. The original
appointment shall not exceed one semester in tenure and may
be renewed only once. Extension of tenure beyond a total of
two semesters shall require the prior consent of the Board for
Higher Education. Special lecturers shall be ranked as visiting

instructors and shall not, accordingly, participate in faculty meet-

ings or in any administrative activity.
d. Professors. They shall be nominated, elected, and called in

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