# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S165
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7. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
To Amend Bylaws Related
to Structure and Governance
of the Concordia University System
RESOLUTION 7-01A
Report R16 (CW, 109–10); Overtures 7-01, 7-07–09, 7-19
(CW, 460–63, 466–68, 473–74); President’s Report, Part
2 (TB, 1:23–24)

WHEREAS, The Resolution 7-02B Task Force created by
the 2016 convention of the Synod has continued work
begun by the 5-01A Task Force created by the 2013
convention, to study matters of structure and governance
for the Concordia University System (CUS); and
WHEREAS, During the past triennium, the CUS institution
presidents, the president of CUS, and the CUS Board of
Directors have also worked toward greater formal and
informal collaboration; and
WHEREAS, The Res. 7-02B Task Force has recommended
certain bylaw changes, for purposes of clarity, and the
formalization of the role of the CUS institution presidents,
including various functions currently assigned to them in
the Bylaws, as the “Concordia University System Advisory
Council”; and
WHEREAS, Within the past triennium, Concordia College
Alabama has closed despite millions of dollars in direct
financial support from the Synod and numerous attempts
by personnel representing the majority of the other CUS
schools to seek a path toward viability; and
WHEREAS, these events, as well as the earlier
consolidation of Concordia University Ann Arbor into
Concordia University Wisconsin, have shown the need for
continuing collaboration and communication among CUS
itself; its institutions; and the Board of Directors, as
custodian of Synod property; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Bylaws of Synod be amended as
follows:
PRESENT/PROPOSED WORDING

church workers of the Synod, and others desiring a
Christian liberal arts education by facilitating prior
approval as set forth in Bylaw 3.10.6.7.3 for theology
appointments to college/university faculties and by
coordinating the activities of the Synod’s colleges and
universities as a unified system of the Synod through their
respective boards of regents.
3.6.6.2
The members of Concordia University System shall
consist of the Synod and the colleges and universities of the
Synod. The Board of Directors of the Synod and the Council
of Presidents of the Synod each shall electappoint delegates
representing the Synod. The boards of regents of the
colleges and universities of the Synod shall electappoint
delegates representing the colleges and universities. The
numbers of delegates electedappointed by the Board of
Directors of the Synod, the Council of Presidents, and the
boards of regents shall be established by the Articles of
Incorporation and Bylaws of Concordia University System.
3.6.6.3
The Board of Directors of Concordia University
System shall be composed of nine voting members and
fourfive nonvoting members (no more than two members
elected by the Synod shall be from the same district, and no
executive, faculty member, or staff member from a
Lutheran institution of higher education may serve on the
Board of Directors of Concordia University System as a
voting member):
Voting Members:
1. Two ministers of religion–ordained elected by the
Synod
2. One minister of religion–commissioned elected by
the Synod
3. Two laypersons elected by the Synod

Concordia University System
3.6.6
Concordia University System, as a corporation
under the laws of the State of Missouri, is operated by its
members and board of directors in accordance with its
Articles of Incorporation and corporate Bylaws to further
the objectives of higher education within the Synod. Any
amendments to these Articles of Incorporation shall be
subject to approval by the members.
3.6.6.1
The Board of Directors of the Concordia University
System has authority with respect to the Synod’s colleges
and universities. It shall have the overall responsibility to
provide for the education of pre-seminary students,
ministers of religion–commissioned, other professional
Resolutions

Committee 7 Chairman Timothy Scharr
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