# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1981_S182
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

182 RESOLUTIONS

and instructed to allocate additional funds to the BHE
for this program in consultation with LC—C; and be it
finally

Resolved, That the action taken be reported to the
next convention of the Synod.

Action: Adopted as amended (11).

(Amendment: the words “‘in a fair and consistent manner”
were inserted by common consent.)

To Defer Action on Bylaws
for St. Catharines
RESOLUTION 6-03
Report 6-16 (CW, p. 255)

WHEREAS, The future of the seminary education
program in Canadais to be decided at the convention of
Lutheran Church—Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Nov. 18—20, 1981; and

WHEREAS, Bylaw changes concerning the status of
St. Catharines would prove to be unnecessary should
the one-seminary program be adopted; and

WHEREAS, If the two-seminary program is adopted,

there will be a large number of additional Bylaw
changes to be made; therefore be it

Resolved, That action on bylaws for St. Catharines
be deferred; and be it finally

Resolved, That, in the interim, the Board for Higher
Education perform the functions of a Board of Control
for St. Catharines.

Action: Adopted (11).

To Grant Four-Year Status
with Baccalaureate-Degree-Granting
Privileges to St. John’s College,
Winfield, Kans.
RESOLUTION 6-04A

Overtures 6-35A—6-36F (CW, pp. 260—261)

WHEREAS, St. John’s College has developed programs
of study for careers of Christian service in the church’s
professional ministries and in other professions that
have already received the accreditation of the North
Central Association of Colleges and Schools and which
with their distinctive emphases do not replicate pro-
gram offerings of other synodical schools; and

WHEREAS, The college now has a faculty that the
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
identifies as “very competent people dedicated to St.
John’s and the Lutheran doctrine” and can advance to
the status ofa baccalaureate-degree-granting institution
without major new expenditures in funds for salary and
benefits for the addition of faculty and support personnel
to offer the proposed programs of study; and

WHEREAS, The college has excellent debt-free phys-
ical facilities for instruction and support purposes that
will serve adequately for a college of 400—500 students -:
and has acampus that is more than adequate to initiate
the programs proposed for the four-year programs; and -

WHEREAS, The college is situated in a geographical -
area and population distribution of the Synod’s mem-
bership that has the population resources to support an”
enrollment that can make the operation of the collegea
fiscally feasible alternative in higher education; there- .
fore be it

Resolved, That the Synod with joy and gratitude for
God’s gracious blessing extend to St. John’s College,
Winfield, Kansas, through the college’s Board of Control
the authorization to define itself as a baccalaureate-
degree-granting institution and that it may exercise
such rights and privileges beginning with the 1981—82
academic year, confident that current agreements -
between the Board of Control of St. John’s College and
the Board for Higher Education will be honored by both
parties.

Action: Adopted (12).

(Discussion was begun in Session 11.)

To Continue to Exempt

Concordia College, Selma,
from the Board
for Higher Education Subsidy Policy
RESOLUTION 6-05A
Overtures 6-43—6-45 (CW, pp. 264—265)
WHEREAS, Concordia College, Selma, was founded in.
1922 by the Synodical Conference for the special purpo:
of preparing Black professional church workers; and
WHEREAS, The Synodical Conference in 1962 trans*
ferred the entire ownership, control, and maintenance:
of the school to The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod;
and

WHEREAS, In the same year the Synod in convention
stated that the Southern District had addressed itself.

aggressively to the problem of raising the level of. the’
Lutheran elementary schools which supply students for :