# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1959_S153
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 153

Proposition 11. That the Board for Higher Education continue
to explore the needs for additional institutions.

Preliminary studies have led the Board to these general con-
clusions as they apply primarily to institutions in the United
States. We request the Board for Higher Education, especially
in plenary session, to continue to study the preliminary findings:

a) The Synod at any one time should have as few theological
seminaries as possible;

b) The Synod at any one time should support as few graduate
schools as possible;

c) The Synod at any one time should have as few four-year
colleges and senior colleges as possible;

ad) The junior college level appears to be the institutional
level which can and should be most decentralized;

e) The high school level appears necessary and desirable as
a means by which a significant core of able and dedicated young
men can begin early pursuit of a church vocation;

f) No synodical school, operating at any level, is to exceed
the maximum student enrollment defensible for it, nor is it other
than temporarily to disrupt its balanced campus development at
its optimum enrollment level.

Proposition 12. That the Board for Higher Education remain
in consultation with the Canadian brethren regarding the develop-
ment of an indigenous Canadian ministry trained in a theological
seminary located in one of the provinces.

Proposition 13. That the training of lay workers be under-
taken on an experimental basis (evening schools, summer ses-
sions, etc.) on existing campuses of the Synod. (The matter of
a Lay Training School was referred to Committee 13 of the 1959
convention, and action was taken on this matter.)

Proposition 14. That the administrative heads and Boards of
Control of the Synod’s colleges and seminaries concern themselves
with the securing of funds from sources other than the Synod’s
treasury and student fees. It is apparent that educational costs
will continue to rise. While colleges and seminaries engaged
exclusively in training pastors and teachers for the church have
a valid claim on the church’s dollar, it must be admitted that the
individual colleges and seminaries have not—in the pattern of
American higher education generally — secured the material
support which their constituencies are capable of giving and willing
to give.

Proposition 15. That the Board for Higher Education continue
to study the necessary development of the Synod’s chain of institu-