# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S325
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HIGHER EDUCATION 325

be asked to make recommendations to the Electors.
These recommendations are not to be construed as
binding on the Electors.

b. The election shall proceed then as outlined in
Handbook Bylaw 6.117, “Elections.” However, the Elec-
tors have the ultimate responsibility and authority to
elect any nominee from the list of candidates whom
they judge to be qualified. They shall in no way be
bound to or unduly influenced by the recommendations

of the faculty committee. Grace LUTHERAN CHURCH

Smithville, Tex.
Fioyp Noack, Secretary

(6-52)

To Adopt New Method of Electing
College Presidents

Wuereas, The choosing or selecting of a synodical
school president is of vital interest to all members of
our beloved Synod; and

Wuereas, The president of a synodical school (insti-
tution) functions as an executive officer of the Board
of Control of the school (institution) and thus repre-
sents the Synod in administering educational policy; and

Wuereas, Bylaw 6.113, “Faculty Committee in Elec-
tion of President” (see synodical Handbook, p.140, in
conjunction with Bylaw 6.111 and Bylaw 6.117 of Hand-
book), in effect gives a committee of the faculty author-
ity to limit the electors to calling or choosing or electing
a candidate from the list of nominees selected by the
faculty committee from the total list of nominees; and

Wuereas, The above-mentioned authority to screen
out nominees amounts to a “veto” power by the faculty
of a synodical school (institution) through its commit-
tee and so makes it possible for a faculty to in effect
block the execution of the will of the Synod acting
through its electors; and

Wuereas, The accepted practice in American institu-
tions of higher learning calls for the faculty to be given
an opportunity to express its judgment in the selection
of a president but reserves the power of decision in
completely unabridged form for those charged with the
power — the governance of the institution — that is, re-
gents or Board of Control, etc.; therefore be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 6.113, “Faculty Committee in
Election of a President,” in the synodical Handbook be
deleted; and be it further

Resolved, That a new Bylaw 6.118 be added: “Elec-
tion of a President to a Synodical School (Institution)
in the Event a President Is to Be Called to an Insti-
tution”:

a. A faculty committee elected by the faculty will be
asked to make recommendations to the electors. These
recommendations are not to be construed as binding
on the electors.

b. The election shall then proceed as outlined in Hand-
book Bylaw 6.117, “Elections.” However, the electors

have the ultimate responsibility and authority to elect
any nominee from the list of candidates whom they

judge to be qualified. They shall in no way be bound
to or unduly influenced by the recommendations of the
faculty committee.

IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH

Olivette, Mo.
R. W. Roettcer, Secretary
WALTER J. HoFFMANN, Pastor

(6-53)

To Include Board of Control and Faculty
Committee in Making Recommendations
for Presidency of Synodical Institutions

Wuereas, The selecting of the president of a synodi-
cal institution is of vital interest and importance to the
congregations and members of the Synod; and

Wuereas, The president is an executive officer of
the Board of Control of that institution, to which he is
called, and represents the school in public and to the
congregations of the Synod; and

Wuereas, It is beneficial that a committee of the
faculty be able to give its considered judgment and
recommendations to the electors choosing a new presi-
dent for the school but not to exercise complete au-
thority or veto power over names given in nomination
for the presidency of that institution; and

Whereas, Bylaw 6.113 of the synodical Constitution
(Handbook, p. 140) does make possible and grant such
power of elimination of possible candidates, which au-
thority should rest solely with the electors; therefore
be it

Resolved, That Bylaw 6.113 be clarified and made
more responsive to the will of the Synod, acting through
its regularly prescribed electors, by the incorporation
of the phrase “The Board of Control of the institution.
together with” so that the Bylaw reads:

6.113 Election of President of a Synodical School

The Board of Control of the institution, together with
a faculty committee elected by the faculty, shall perform
such analytical functions and make recommendations in the
event that a president is to be called for an institution.

St. Joun’s LUTHERAN CHURCH
Peru, Ind.

Huco ENGELBRECHT, Secretary
Raupu N. DaANIELSEN, Pastor

(6-54)

To Amend Method of Electing Professors

and Presidents of Synodical Institutions

Wuereas, The present method of electing a professor
for a synodical institution calls for election from a list
prepared and approved by the president of the institu-
tion; and

Wuereas, Election of an institution’s president is
made from a list supplied and approved by a faculty
committee of the institution; and

Wuereas, The Board of Control of the institution,
the Board for Higher Education, the District President
and the synodical President have one vote each (a total