# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S224
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 223

gram seems to impose a necessary limitation to the possible expan-
sion of some of these units. On the other hand, it appears to be
definitely to the advantage of Synod to develop its individual
junior college campuses in such a way as to provide for maximum
output from each of such schools.

Recognizing the urgency of accelerating the training output on
the junior college level in order to make fullest early use of the
facilities of Concordia Senior College, which, God willing, will
open its doors in September 1957, the Board for Higher Education
recommends that Synod gives its approval to the establishment of
a general-admissions priority on the junior college level for the
benefit of qualified professional-training students who present
themselves for admission.

As has been noted previously, the Board for Higher Educa-
tion has authorized Concordia College, Milwaukee, to conduct an
experimental summer school program on the junior college level,
whereby students offering high school entrance units deficient in
one or more specific respects can remove them through summer
work rather than by spending an extra year in training on the
junior college level. If this program is successful in this regard,
it may well be desirable and feasible for Synod to establish and
maintain selected junior college level summer school programs
at one or more additional institutions whereby the able and
ambitious student can accelerate his program through the training
system. It might be possible for a zealous student to accelerate
his progress through the training program from the freshman
college year through seminary graduation by as much as a year
and a half or even two years.

If, as indicated above, the recruitment effort both for minis-
terial students and for teacher-training students of both sexes
must be significantly increased in the next period of years in order
to meet the growing synodical demand, in one way or another the
capacity of the training facilities in the “heartland” of Synod
must correspondingly be increased, since that is where the greater
number of the youth of the church who are to be recruited are
to be found.

Many memorials in previous synodical conventions as well
as some before this convention bear directly upon this basic fact.
One such suggestion involved the possibility of transferring the
present terminal ministerial training program at Springfield to
the West Coast, perhaps in the centrally located San Francisco
Bay area, and the further possibility of using the existing facilities
at Springfield for junior college level ministerial and teacher train-
ing. Another specific memorial petitions Synod to authorize the
construction and establishment of a new junior college for minis-