# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1969_S335
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HIGHER EDUCATION 335

4. Studies show that the college already meets or has
made substantial progress toward meeting the criteria
which the Board for Higher Education presented to the
New York convention for changing a 2-year into a
4-year college. These are the areas of student potential,
availability of space, discontinuance of the preparatory
school, development of faculty, growth of library, and
exploration of finances.

5. Substantial and persistent support for this devel-
opment has been given through the resolutions adopted
by the Atlantic, Eastern, and Southeastern Districts and
from pastoral and teachers conferences.

Boarp oF CONTROL

Concorpia COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
Bronxville, New York

Rozert C. Haupt, Secretary

(6-82)

The same overture, except for the substitution of
“especially those in teacher education” in Point 1, was
received from the Faculty of Concordia Junior College,
Bronxville, N. Y.. Thomas Green, Secretary.

(6-83)

To Extend Program at Bronxville

Whereas, Concordia Collegiate Institute, Bronxville,
N.Y., serves the densely populated eastern United
States, of which the Eastern District of the Synod forms
a vital sector; and

Wuereas, The Institute in phasing out its Academy
Department is concentrating on the junior college pro-
gram, enhancing its efforts through remarkable faculty
developments; and

Wuereas, Junior colleges are held in lower regard
in the educational systems of the East more than in
many other parts of the nation; and

Wuereas, The need for recruitment of ministerial
and teacher students continues to plague the church;
and

WHEREAS, There is great need for a liberal arts col-
lege to serve Lutheran young men and women in this
highly populous region; and

Wuereas, Consideration must be given to the train-
ing of full-time church workers from the East to serve
the church through a variety of ministries in the
unique environs in which they were reared; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That the Eastern District petition The Lu-
theran Church — Missouri Synod at its 1969 convention
in Denver, Colo., to extend the program of Concordia
Collegiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y., to a 4-year liberal
arts college; and be it further

Resolved, That such course include terminal teacher
training, full pretheological preparation, and training in
such specialized ministries as may be demanded by de-
veloping needs of the church.

CLARENCE W. Rase, Secretary

(6-84)
To Develop 4-Year Program
at Bronxville

The Board of Directors of the Atlantic District peti-
tions The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, assem-
bled in convention at Denver, July 11—19, 1969, to grant
authorization for the development of Concordia Col-
legiate Institute, Bronxville, N. Y., into a 4-year Lu-
theran college.

Among the considerations which prompt the board
to urge this development are the following:

A. The persistent favorable sentiments of the Atlan-
tic District for such an expansion. The District has
presented overtures to the meetings of the Synod in
1959, 1962, 1965, and 1967 urging an upward extension
of Concordia’s program. In the judgment of the board
this sentiment continues unchanged and unabated.

B. Such an expansion would further strengthen our
Lutheran Church and its flourishing parish school sys-
tem in the eastern region of our country, the region in
which there is both a substantial Lutheran constituency
and a very large segment of our country’s population.

C. Such a development would aid significantly in the
recruitment of students since it would obviate transfer
to another campus after the first 2 years.

D. Concordia, Bronxville, has successfully included
a growing number of general students on its campus
since 1936 and thus is in a unique position to help the
church experiment more fully with this important as-
pect of its future program of higher education.

E. In addition, a 4-year college program would make
possible a greater participation in current and future
programs of state aid available to students and their
parents in the eastern region of our country than is now
possible at the junior college level.

Boarp oF DIRECTORS
ATLANTIC DISTRICT
RicuarpD C. HintTz, Secretary

(6-85)

To Commend Concordia, Portland, Donors

Wuereas, Concordia, Portland, Oreg., has success-
fully completed a $500,000 Concordia Expansion Fund
Drive for capital investment, scholarships, and land ac-
quisition; and

Wuereas, God has moved many dedicated Christians
of the Northwest to contribute toward the success of this
venture; therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod in convention assembled in Denver, Colo., give
thanks to God and the Lutheran Christians of the North-
west for this support of our Portland Concordia; and be
it further

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod, in convention assembled in Denver, Colo., urge
the Lutheran Christians in the Northwest to continue to