# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1998_S134
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

c. Special meetings of the faculty or of the faculty
senate may be called by the president.
[Rationale: This detail is included in institutional
governance documents.]
d. b. In the president’s absence the designated acting president shall preside at regular and special meetings. The president or his designee shall preside at regular and special meetings.
[Rationale: Too specific—routine absences of the
president do not require naming a formal “acting president.”]
e. c. The faculty shall elect a secretary and provide
for the election of committees, consisting of faculty
members or of faculty members and other persons, who
shall study, evaluate, and report to the faculty on policy
matters affecting the academic activity of the institution, the activity and welfare of the members of the faculty, and the life and welfare of the students.
[Rationale: The faculty’s administrative responsibilities are in the academic area.]
f. d. The faculty shall elect a standing hearings committee or assign the functions of such a committee to
another standing committee.
6.35 Institutional Educational Policies
a. Each faculty shall adopt rules and regulations recommend policy to the Board of Regents through the
president for the admission, transfer, dismissal, or withdrawal of students, fix set the standards of scholarship
to be maintained by students, determine criteria for
their promotion, graduation or failure, act on recommendations in the matter of granting certificates, diplomas, and such academic or honorary degrees as may
lawfully be conferred by the institution.
[Rationale: These policies are an institutional responsibility of the Board of Regents. Note 6.03 b and d;
6.03 j 8.]
b. Each faculty shall develop and construct curricula implementing the recognized and established purposes of the institution and designed to attain the synodically approved objectives of training preparation for
professional church workers and other Christian leaders. Each faculty shall pursue the improvement of
teaching and learning and the evaluation of their effectiveness in every segment of the institution and its curriculum.
c. Each faculty shall develop policies, standards, and
programs recommend policy to the Board of Regents
through the president regarding out-of-class life and activity of its students so that the cocurricular and offcampus activities of the student contribute to the attainment of the educational objectives of the institution.
The faculty shall draw up recommend such standards,
criteria, and regulations policies as will be conducive to
the cultivation of a Christian deportment on the part of
all students, will stimulate the creation of a cultured
and academically challenging atmosphere on and about
the whole campus, and will make a spiritually wholesome community life possible.
[Rationale: The Board of Regents of each institution
is responsible for this function, 6.03 j 8.]
d. Each faculty shall develop policies, standards,
and regulations that will contribute to the maintenance
of wholesome conditions of instructional staff service
and welfare Each faculty shall recommend policy to the
Board of Regents through the president regarding the
maintenance of wholesome conditions of faculty service
and welfare.
[Rationale: Staff welfare is assigned to the Board of
Regents (6.03 j 3) and not to the faculty.]
e. The faculty of each institution which trains prepares professional workers directly for service in the
Synod shall conform its placement policies to the syn-

odical provisions for the distribution of candidates and
workers through the synodical Board of Assignments.
6.37 c. e. The Board for Higher Education shall periodically review the institutional policies, programs, and
curricula to determine whether they are consistent with
the stated objectives of the Synod’s educational system
and its institutions.
6.37 Institutional Policy Formation
a. The regulations, standards, criteria, policies, programs, and curricula developed and adopted by each
synodical faculty shall be submitted for approval to the
respective Board of Regents.
[Rationale: Covered in 6.03 b.]
b. After approval, these regulations, standards, criteria, policies, programs, and curricula shall be administered and applied by the administrative officers of the
institution.
[Rationale: Covered in 6.03 j 7 and 10; 6.12 b.]
c. Moved to 6.35 above.
6.39 Evangelical Discipline and the Right of
Appeal
a. Each faculty shall develop policies worthy of the
Christian faith for personal conduct and community life
applicable to students, faculty and staff members, and
other employees while on the campus.
[Rationale: Faculty, staff, and student welfare is assigned to the Board of Regents (6.03 j 3, 8) through the
President (6.12 f, i, j).]
b. a. Each Board of Regents, on recommendation of
the faculty president, shall adopt a comprehensive policy statement committing the school to the principles of
Christian discipline, evangelical dealing, and good
order governing the students individually and collectively.
[Rationale: Faculty, staff, and student welfare is assigned to the Board of Regents through the President
(6.12 f, i, j).]
c. b. Each student shall be informed regarding the
disciplinary policy and procedure and under what conditions and to whom an appeal from a disciplinary decision may be made. There shall be no right of appeal
under the provisions of Bylaw 8.01ff.
6.41 Controversies among Faculty Members or
Other Employees
Controversies and disagreements among members
of the faculty members or other employees (other than
those set forth involving matters described in Bylaw
6.43) shall be submitted to the president of the institution for mediation. If this proves unsuccessful, he shall
report the matter to the Board of Regents for arbitration. After hearing the parties the board will render its
decision, which shall be final, without the right of appeal under the provisions of Bylaw 8.01ff. A record of
the proceedings shall be filed with the Board for Higher
Education.
[Rationale: This process needs to include the staff.]
6.43 Removal from Office
a. The Board of Regents may decline to renew the
appointment of a faculty member without permanent
tenure or the contract of an employee at the time of the
expiration of the term of the appointment in accordance
with Bylaw 6.23 c. of the contract. (See Bylaw 6.23 c.)
[Rationale: This is also true for staff.]
b. No member of the faculty who has been granted
permanent tenure and no member of the faculty without permanent tenure at times other than the expiration of the term of appointment shall be removed from
the faculty either by ecclesiastical authority or by the