# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_2019_S169
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7. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
institution subject to appropriate pre-established policies
and rules (e.g., Synod Bylaws), under no circumstances
shall a board delegate its authority to, nor commingle its
authority with, any other body that includes non-board
members. Boards of regents may meet as a “committee of
the whole” with advisory groups (e.g., a foundation board;
the CUS board) to seek input, but no votes shall be taken at
such meetings.
Concordia University System Presidents
3.10.6.6 The president of the institution shall be the
executive officer of the board of regents. He shall serve as
the spiritual, academic, and administrative head of the
institution.
…
(m) He shall represent the institution on the Concordia
University System Advisory Council.
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3.10.6.6.2 The following process shall govern the selection of
a college/university president.
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(b) The board of regents shall oversee the process of
defining the institution’s needs, describing the desired
characteristics of the new president, and issuing a
request for nominations.
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(2) The search committee shall prepare a description
of the needs of the institution based on listening
forums, the findings of the Board for University
Education’s Concordia University System’s transition
review, and other relevant information. Before
publishing a call for nominations, the President of
Concordia University System shall convene an inperson conference involving the board of regents, the
search committee, and the prior approval panel to
discuss the qualifications that will be sought and the
search criteria.

Action: Adopted (8)
In Session 4, it was moved and seconded to amend the resolution,
striking, on TB 2B:267, the proposed changes to Bylaw 3.6.6.4
(i) (as numbered in the proposal), so as to restore the original
bylaw language, “have authority, after receiving the consent of
the Board of Directors of the Synod by its two-thirds vote and also
the consent of either the Council of Presidents by its two-thirds
vote or the appropriate board of regents by its two-thirds vote, to
consolidate, relocate, separate, or divest a college or university.”
With the amendment pending and a delegate having requested
to hear from the CCM on this topic, the chair called the orders of
the day. When discussion resumed in Session 8, it was moved,
seconded, and carried to close debate on the amendment [Yes:
596; No: 177]; the amendment failed [Yes: 355; No: 425].
Thereupon closure of debate on the resolution was moved,
seconded, and carried [Yes: 655; No: 173]. Res. 7-01A was
adopted as presented [Yes: 680; No: 149].

Resolutions

To Nurture Our Lutheran System
of Higher Education
RESOLUTION 7-02
Overtures 7-03–06, 12, 14, 16, 18–20 (CW, 464–66, 469–
71, 472–74)

…by Affirming the Lutheran Identity of the Concordia
University System
WHEREAS, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
(LCMS) has been blessed by our Concordia colleges and
universities for more than 150 years as lights of the Gospel
as they seek to confess Christ in an increasingly sinful and
darkened world; and
WHEREAS, Higher education is in a time of significant
change, including but not limited to demographic shifts in
prospective student populations, increasing market
competition from non-profit and for-profit providers of
education, ongoing innovations in technology and
academic program delivery models, and growing financial
complexities; and
WHEREAS, Our Concordia University System (CUS)
colleges and universities are challenged because of their
faithfulness to Christ, as revealed by Holy Scripture and as
rightly taught in the Lutheran Confessions, in an
increasingly secular culture; and
WHEREAS, We give thanks that the colleges and
universities of the CUS desire to preserve and extend their
identity and commitment to Lutheran higher education,
and have all signed the Lutheran Identity Statement
drafted by the CUS institution presidents, approved by all
of the respective boards of regents, and adopted by the
Synod as 2016 Resolution 7-01A [Yes: 927; No:43]; and
…by Affirming That the Concordia University System
Colleges and Universities Exist to Educate Both Church
Workers and Lay People Alike
WHEREAS, The CUS schools are called to provide a
distinctively Lutheran education not only for pastors,
teachers, deaconesses, other commissioned ministers, and
church organists and musicians, but equally and also for
laypeople who will serve the Lord Jesus in their various
vocations; and
WHEREAS, Our CUS schools, as centers of EvangelicalLutheran teaching, learning, and life together, thus
encourage students to consider ways in which they can
serve the Church through their lifelong vocations, whether
it be as full-time church workers, through advanced
theological study, and/or as faithful laity, to share the
saving Gospel of Jesus Christ wherever they are planted;
and

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