# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S115
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 115

The following considerations aré to be taken under advisement
for the selection of professors as candidates under the program:

a. For guest lectureships — lecturers be selected by host insti-
tutions who will apply to committee for specific speakers;

b. Opportunities for advanced studies for professors in Syn-
od’s institutions in foreign fields with the following pertinent data
to be submitted with each application, indicating:

1. Years of service to the church;

2. Transcript of credits indicating preparation for church work;

3. Additional evidences of scholarship.

The following criteria are to be applied to students:

a. Statement by the student indicating service he hopes to
render to his church at home by this type of scholarship;

b. Recommendation by the faculty including his scholastic at-
tainment and character description as well as personal references
which are to cover a student’s character, seriousness of purpose,
ability, and his leadership qualifications;

c. Transcript of credits indicating his preparation for church
work.

The financial assistance should be based on expenses involved
for each candidate without regard to the support of his dependents
or their possible travel and housing costs. If wife or children are
involved, the candidate assumes the financial costs for their support
or needs. In the case of students’ travel expenses, only one-way
fare will be provided plus housing, board, and tuition, together
with minimum monthly allowance as pocket money.

In relation to the Board for Higher Education the following
position has been established:

a. The Board for Higher Education has as its responsibility
the foreign students on the college level. The Exchange Study
Program concerns itself only with seminary and graduate students,
pastors, and professors who might be served on the exchange basis.

b. The Board for Higher Education is concerned mainly with
children of our missionaries in foreign countries who wish to
serve our church in this country, and the Exchange Study Pro-
gram concerns itself only with men who will return to their own
country after receiving additional training in our seminary.

c. The Exchange Study Program is to become a function of
the Doctrinal Unity Committee in order to strengthen the bonds
of fellowship as well as to seek to strengthen Lutheranism where-
ever opportunity offers.

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