# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S322
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322 HIGHER EDUCATION

PRESENT WORDING

proved synodical training program declared qualified for
placement shall be assigned his first placement by the Coun-
cil of Presidents, acting as the Board of Assignments.

6.165 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

b. The faculty of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, shall
offer guidance for the work of pastoral institutes and summer
conferences.

6.167 Concordia Seminary, Springfield

The admissions policies of Concordia Seminary, Spring-
field, Ill., shall be determined by its faculty in concurrence
with the Board of Control and the Board for Higher Educa-
tion and should be reviewed periodically in the light of the
needs of the church.

6.169 Teachers Colleges

a. Students who for any reason have not completed their
studies at the Synod’s teachers colleges shall not be eligible
for temporary or permanent service in congregations without
the consent and approval of the respective faculties and
District Presidents.

b. Women graduates from the Synod’s teachers colleges
or such women as have given satisfactory evidence of hav-
ing met the minimum requirements set by the Synod are
eligible for teaching positions in the Synod’s schools. To
obtain such positions, these women shall present themselves
for placement by applying to one of the teachers college
faculties, who through their placement committees will pre-
sent these candidates to the official synodical committee for
assignment to teaching positions. Congregations may obtain
these women teachers by making formal applications, en-
dorsed by the respective District President, to the faculties
of the teachers colleges.

PROPOSED WORDING

for placement shall be assigned his first placement by the
Council of Presidents, acting as the Board of Assignments.
(NoTE: 4.09 should be slightly revised to conform to the
change in 6.163 a.)
6.165 Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
b. Delete

6.167 Concordia Seminary, Springfield
Delete

6.169 Teachers Colleges
Delete

Boarp For HIGHER EDUCATION
SAMUEL GOLTERMANN, Asst. Exec. Sec.

(6-44)

To Form Panel for Critical Evaluation
of Synodical Educational System

WHEREAS, Our Synod with the rest of contemporary
Christianity is experiencing much difficulty demonstrat-
ing to the world our nature and function as God’s
servant church; and

Wuereas, This difficulty is nowhere more obvious
than in our introverted financial goals; and

WuerEAS, It is uncertain whether or not our pre-
paratory high schools, preministerial colleges, teachers
colleges, and seminaries are presently the best and/or
most economical ways to fulfill our total synodical tasks
in especially higher education; e. g.:

We have no synodical institutions of higher edu-
cation for the bulk of our young people who are
not entering full-time church work.

It seems most reasonable and helpful not to
cloister theology today but rather to provide a ripe
climate wherein theology can have healthful and
challenging intercourse with the other disciplines;
and

WHEREAS, It is logical to conclude that much of the
great cost of our higher educational system is to be
found in the duplication of campuses (17 of them, with

new ones being planned) while our professors are
being grossly underpaid; therefore be it

Resolved, That a panel of impartial educational ex-
perts from the Synod, but in no way tied to the synodical
educational system as faculty or administrative person-
nel, be formed critically to evaluate the aforementioned
current situation and to provide concrete solutions and
proposals at the next synodical convention whereby
we may be able to fulfill our whole task in higher
education in hopefully better, broader, and more eco-
nomical ways, including in their study at least the
following possibility:

the establishment (perhaps jointly with other Lu-
theran bodies?) of large, academically excellent
universities, strategically located in terms of popula-
tion and geography, each of which would have good
schools of education and divinity to supply the needs
of our preaching and teaching ministries.

In any case, the panel should seek to achieve the goal
of enabling our Synod to provide the best possible edu-
cation for the largest number of Lutheran young people
at the lowest possible cost.
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH
Fort Wayne, Ind.
HERBERT LINDEMANN, Pastor
Mack GokEG.LeEIn, Pastor
Pau. SAvUERTEIG, Chairman
MIcHakEt E. WENDT, Secretary