# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S167
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7. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Missouri Synod (Constitution Art. III) and complying
with an emphasis on mission-focused leadership in
service to church and community;
(b) delivering academic and student programs designed
to give students Christ-centered values and tools that
equip them for vocations within the church and world;
(c) preparing graduates for service as ministers of
religion―commissioned and for continued study for
service as ministers of religion—ordained for the Synod;
(d) implementing accepted higher education standards,
including policies that ensure fiscal and institutional
viability, by:
• achieving positive annual financial results
• acquiring quality administrators, faculty, and staff
• meeting fiscal and academic benchmarks
• building endowments and managing investment
assets for the long-term benefit of the institutions
• acquiring and managing long-term debt carefully
and responsibly
(e) sustaining a Concordia experience that reflects
strong institutional quality, provides opportunities to be
of greater service to the church and society, and
mobilizes individuals in a way that aids the campuses in
achieving their collective vision with respect to their
identity, quality, and viability; and
(f) maintaining accountability of its institutions to the
system-wide board.
3.6.6.7
The Concordia University System Board of
Directors shall maintain in its policies a list of subject
matters that each educational institution must address in
its own policies and procedures, to include faculty
appointments, employment contracts, contract renewal,
contract termination, faculty organization, modified
service,
sabbaticals,
and
dispute
resolution.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any such policy, any
person connected with an institution who is a member of
the Synod shall also remain under the ecclesiastical
supervision of the Synod, and nothing in any such
Concordia University System institution policy shall be
construed to limit or constrain any action that may be taken
or the rights or responsibilities of any party, pursuant to the
Synod Handbook with respect to a member of Synod.
3.6.6.8
The Concordia University System shall maintain a
Model Operating Procedures Manual, in consultation with the
Commission on Constitutional Matters, regarding the
handling of faculty complaints and dispute resolution by
college/university boards of regents.
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F. Concordia University System Boards of Regents
3.10.6
Each college and university of the Synod, with its
president and faculty, shall be governed by a board of
regents, subject to general policies set by the Synod,
including those established by the Concordia University
System.
3.10.6.1 In exercising its relationship to the Synod and to
the Concordia University System as set forth elsewhere
under Bylaw 3.6. 6ff. and following, the board of regents of
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each institution shall consider as one of its primary duties
the defining and fulfilling of the mission of the institution
within the broad assignment of the Synod.
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3.10.6.2 The board of regents of each college and university
shall consist of no more than 18 voting members.
1. One ordained minister, one commissioned minister,
and two laypersons shall be elected by the conventions
of the Synod.
2. One ordained minister, one commissioned minister,
and two laypersons shall be elected by the geographical
district in which the institution is located. If any board is
required by its governing documents to include one or
more persons holding residence or church membership
in a specific locality, the institution is responsible for
ensuring (including by appointment, if necessary) that
individual(s) meeting such requirements are included
among those persons serving on such board, and after
August 1, 2019 no such geographic restriction shall apply
to Synod-elected regents.
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3.10.6.4 The board of regents of each institution shall
become familiar with and develop an understanding of
pertinent policies, standards, and guidelines of the Synod
and the Board of Directors of Concordia University System.
(a) It shall develop detailed policies and procedures for
governance of the institution, including but not limited
to
(1) attention to specific ways that the institution is
confessing Jesus Christ in full accord with the
doctrinal position of the LCMS (Constitution Art. II)
and fulfilling His mission in our world;
(2) ensuring that all faculty receive appropriate
formal, ongoing training in the doctrines of Holy
Scripture as rightly taught in the Lutheran
Confessions as they relate to their academic
disciplines, consistent with the CUS Lutheran Identity
Statement, to enable faculty to engage in responsible
exercise of their academic freedom under the CUS
Academic Freedom Policy in effect from time to time;
(23) annual certification of the institution’s financial
viability;
(34) creation, modification, and abolition of
administrative positions;
(45) processes for filling and vacating administrative
positions;
(56) a clear plan for succession of administration to
ensure that the institution continues to function
effectively in the case of incapacity or lengthy absence
of the president and other executive officers;
(7) handling faculty complaints and dispute
resolution under an operating procedures manual
approved by the Concordia University System Board;
and
(8) all subject matters for which Concordia
University System requires policies to be developed
(Bylaw 3.6.6.7).
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