# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2010_S140
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RESOLUTIONS

(3) The faculty member shall be given the opportunity to
respond to any comments or concerns that may have been raised
relative to promotion to a continuing-level appointment .
(4) At least six weeks after the notice is published, consent
of the electors of the institution shall be given .
(5) (2) If the above steps have all been met, after After final
review the board of regents may promote to a continuing-level
appointment status .

Action: Adopted (11)
(After being briefly alluded to during Session 10, Res . 5-11 was
discussed and adopted as presented during Session 11 [Yes: 794;
No; 190] .)

To Revise Bylaw 3.8.3.8.3 (b) re Faculty
Appointments

Synod’s doctrinal statements, and the policies of the
Synod .”
2 . The expression “and the policies of the Synod” is imprecise and ambiguous since there are no centrally defined
“policies of the Synod” to which anyone else is pledged .
3 . All faculty members of Synod institutions are already
pledged to “the Holy Scriptures as the inspired Word of
God, the Lutheran Confessions, [and] the Synod’s doctrinal statements .”
4 . In addition, it is proposed that the convention delete the
statement that “ordinarily” full-time faculty are rostered
members of the Synod . In fact, in many disciplines of
study the most qualified faculty members are not rostered members of the Synod .

Overtures 5-35–36 (CW, p. 206)

Therefore be it
Resolved, That the first sentence and the later phrase “and
the policies of the Synod” be removed from Bylaw 3 .8 .3 .8 .3
(b) so that the bylaw will read:

Rationale

PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING

RESOLUTION 5-12

1 . Bylaw 3 .8 .3 .8 .3 (appointment of members to faculties
of the Synod’s institutions) was altered by the 1998
convention of the Synod . This action changed the former wording: “When, in exceptional cases, laypersons
are involved, they should be persons who are solemnly
pledged to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired Word of
God and to the Lutheran Confessions” to currently read
(3 .8 .3 .8 .3 [b]): “When laypersons are employed in fulltime teaching positions, they shall pledge to perform
their duties in harmony with the Holy Scriptures as the
inspired Word of God, the Lutheran Confessions, the

2010 Convention Proceedings

3 .8 .3 .8 .3 The board of regents on recommendation of the
president of the institution shall appoint full-time members of
the faculty .  . . .
… (b) Ordinarily candidates for full-time teaching positions
shall be rostered members of the Synod . When laypersons are
employed in full-time teaching positions, they shall pledge to
perform their duties in harmony with the Holy Scriptures as the
inspired Word of God, the Lutheran Confessions, and the Synod’s doctrinal statements . and the policies of the Synod .

Action: Adopted (11)
(After discussion, Res . 5-12 was adopted as presented [Yes:
805; No: 215] .)