# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S121
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BEE ARE TIS AE ELIE IAT

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 121

criteria for their promotion, graduation, or failure, act on recom-
mendations in the matter of granting certificates. diplomas, and
such academic or honorary degrees as may be conferred lawfully
by the institution.

b. Each faculty shall develop and construct curricula imple-
menting the recognized and established purposes of the institution
and designed to attain the synodically approved objectives of train-
ing for professional church workers. Each faculty shall pursue the
improvement of teaching and learning and the evaluation of their
effectiveness in every segment of the institution and its curriculum.

c. Each faculty shall develop policies, standards, and programs
for the out-of-class life and activity of its students so that the co-
curricular and off-campus activities of the student contribute to the
attainment of the educational objectives of the institution. The
faculty shall draw up such standards, criteria, and regulations as
will be conducive to the cultivation of a Christian deportment on
the part of all students, will stimulate the creation of a cultured
and academically challenging atmosphere on and about the whole
campus, and will make a spiritually wholesome common life
possible.

d. Each faculty shall develop policies, standards, and regula-
tions contributing to wholesome conditions of instructional staff
service and welfare.

e. The faculty of each institution which trains professional
workers directly for service in the Synod shall conform its place-
ment policies to the synodical provisions for distribution of candi-
dates and workers through the synodical Board of Assignment.

6.63 Institutional Policy Formation

a. The regulations, standards, criteria, policies, programs and
curricula developed and adopted by each synodical faculty are to
be submitted for approval to the respective Board of Control.

b. Upon approval, such regulations, standards, criteria, policies,
programs, and curricula are to be administered and applied by the
administrative officers of the institution.

c. The Board for Higher Education shall periodically review
the institutional policies, programs, and curricula to determine
whether they are consistent with the stated objectives of the
Synod’s educational system and its institutions.

6.65 Evangelical Discipline and the Right of Appeal

The Board of Control and the faculty are to develop, formulate,
promote, and foster ideals, standards, and criteria of personal con-
duct and of the common life of the campus, worthy of the Christian
calling and of ministers in training for the church. Each student,
together with His parents and advisers, deserves to know what