# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S263
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

262 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

The General Educational Fee or Tuition

At Synod’s colleges and seminaries our educational fees, or
tuitions, have traditionally been unusually low. To a large extent
this has been completely justified, inasmuch as for students pre-
paring for the service of the church the major portion of the edu-
cational cost is properly borne by the subsidy to the institution
from the Board for Higher Education section of the annual synodi-
cal budget. Nevertheless our boards of control and administrators
recognize that a sizable student educational fee is required if an
adequate education is to be offered without a considerable increase
in annual synodical subsidy.

In general, the annual synodical subsidy for educational and
general costs should cover the complete cost of salaries, pensions,
and Social Security for instructional personnel, for utilities in the
educational plant, for taxes for which relief cannot be obtained,
for classroom and faculty office equipment, for permanent teaching
aids and teaching-aid equipment, for annual maintenance and
minor repairs, as well as for painting and decorating in the educa-
tional plant, for major salaries in the business office and in the
buildings and grounds department, for secretarial salaries as nego-
tiated and agreed, for necessary expenses of the Board of Control,
for moving expense for faculty members, for housing costs for
faculty members in accordance with the current synodical policy.

Student educational fees, on the other hand, should generally
cover the complete current cost of student health service; of devo-
tional, cultural, and athletic cocurricular programs; of salaries of
nonfaculty personnel in any of these programs; for printing, post-
age, telephone; and for student government budgets.

The following budget expenditure classifications are being
shared in varying proportions: janitorial service in the educational
and general plant; library books and magazines; student recruit-
ment programs; faculty and administrative travel; faculty develop-
ment; campus maintenance and improvement; and official expense
accounts. The same is true of special ventures such as authorized
summer sessions, correspondence schools, and extension work.
Where training-school programs meet the needs of Synod’s author-
ized programs, local congregations also share in their costs.

Since, in general, college level education tends to be more
expensive than high school level education, senior college level
education tends to be more expensive than junior college level edu-
cation; professional more than preprofessional; post-baccalaureate
more than pre-baccalaureate; these tendencies should be recog-
nized in the establishment of the fee schedule as well as in the
provision of subsidies for the various levels.

The Board for Higher Education holds that schools in the