# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S315
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HIGHER EDUCATION 315

resolution regarding this matter, to make allowance for
expanding the facilities and faculty of this college, as
it becomes economically feasible, to admit students
seeking a higher education in secular disciplines; and
be it finally

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education con-
tinue to develop its plan for higher education on the
West Coast in consultation with the Districts which will
be most involved and in which responsibility will be
assumed for the recruitment of church-vocation

students. CouLece FEasiBitity STUDY COMMITTEE
CALIFORNIA AND Nevapa DISTRICT
Water H. HartKorr, Secretary
Martin H. WERFELMANN, Chairman
(6-42)

To Build Educational Institution
at Irvine, Calif.

Wuereas, Southern California is the most populous
center on the West Coast, with 12.5 million people in
residence who comprise one half of the population in
the three coastal states and 40 percent of the population
in the 11 western states, and has grown more than twice
as fast as the national average; and

Wuereas, Southern California will continue to grow
at an unprecedented rate in the future (inasmuch as
it now has 60 percent of the state’s population in the
14 southern California counties; the California Depart-
ment of Finance has projected that by 1980 66 percent
of the population will be living in the ten southern
counties of the state); and

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
has 223 congregations in the southern California area,
more than our church body has in any other comparable
area on the West Coast; and

Wuereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod
continues to have the largest Lutheran constituency of
any Lutheran body on the West Coast for a specific
regional area; and the Southern California District of
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod continues to
evangelize in this area by opening new missions; and

Wuereas, The Board for Higher Education previously
had been given authority by the Synod (1959) to in-
vestigate educational sites in California (an evaluation
of 88 sites in southern California for the location of a
Lutheran college took place prior to the selection of
Irvine as the best possible educational site in Califor-
nia); and

PRESENT WORDING

6.11 Meetings with the Faculties

The Board for Higher Education shall call a meeting of
the faculties of the Synod’s educational institutions when in
its judgment the welfare of the Synod’s educational work
requires such a meeting for the purpose of studying, co-
ordinating, and improving the educational policies, standards,
procedures, and curricula of the Synod’s educational insti-
tutions. No member of any faculty shall be excused except

Wuereas, The educational site at Irvine is one of the
four best sites where our Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod operates 17 educational institutions in the United
States and probably the best academic site of all because
of its close proximity to a major academic institution
(University of California at Irvine — 27,500 enrollment
by 1985) in an area of large Lutheran population and
future growth; and

Wuereas, Synodical resolutions in Cleveland, Ohio,
in 1962 (Proceedings, p. 79, Res. 1-22) and reaffirmed in
Detroit, Mich., in 1965 (Proceedings, p. 144, Res. 6-26)
directed the Board for Higher Education to construct
a Lutheran college immediately in southern California;

and

Wuereas, The property at Irvine, Calif., has been
purchased, architectural plans by the John Carl War-
necke Firm have been approved and paid for, and a
Board of Control for Irvine College has been chosen
and is presently functioning; and

Wuereas, The proposal made by some to have the
Board for Higher Education seek alignment with Cali-
fornia Lutheran College at Thousand Oaks, Calif., has
proven to be impractical — economically, academically,
geographically, and otherwise; and

Wuereas, Further delay in construction continues to
cost the Synod valuable dollars (U.S. Department of
Commerce Cost Index reveals that there has been a 17
percent increase in building costs from January 1965 to
November 1968; and as of March 1969 there has been
a significant increase in prime interest rates); therefore
be it

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education of
The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod be directed to
act now on the pertinent resolutions of the Detroit and
Cleveland conventions of the Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the synodical Board of Directors ex-
ercise the authority granted to borrow the necessary
funds for capital investments forthwith (Res. 4-08, New
York convention, 1967, Proceedings, p. 106) so that the
college at Irvine can be built without further delay.

Boarp OF DIRECTORS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DISTRICT
EuGENE O. SMITH, Secretary

(6-43)

To Amend Bylaws (Colleges and Seminaries)
The Board for Higher Education proposes the follow-
ing Handbook changes:

PROPOSED WORDING

6.11 Meetings with the Faculties
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