# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1930_S51
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1930. 51

Our Educational Institutions.

We have three higher institutions at which colored pastors as well as colored
teachers, men and women, are trained for mission service.

1. Immanuel Lutheran College in Greensboro, N. C. Founded 1903. Director
since June 1925: Dr. Heinrich Nau. The institution has three departments: high
school, teachers' seminary and ministerial seminary. The number of pupils in
the high school at the end of the last school year was 83. Decrease: 23. Among
these 83 pupils were 31 boys and 52 girls, of whom 32 were Lutherans. In the
normal school there were two Lutheran girl students, in the theological seminary
14 students, among them 3 vicars. The total number of all pupils: 99, of whom
48 are Lutherans and 51 non-Lutherans. The total number of students has fallen
by 15.

In the faculty no changes have occurred during the two reporting years. It
consists, as before, of seven members, of whom 4 teach exclusively in the high
school, 2 in the high school and seminary, and 1 (Prof. F. Berg) exclusively in
the seminary. One of the members of the faculty is a colored young woman who
teaches home economics. She does not belong to the Lutheran church.

The health of the pupils was good in the last school year despite the
primitive sleeping arrangements for the boys on the third floor of the main
building. The conduct of the pupils was good. No serious case of discipline
has occurred.

During this biennium the institution was able to celebrate its silver jubilee.
Many festival visitors had come for it from near and far.

Conditions in North Carolina, and in the whole Southeastern field generally,
have developed in recent years in such a way that the new building, for which
$75,000 was appropriated two years ago, has not yet been erected.

The Mission Commission recommends that the following repairs and alterations
be made to the old teaching and residence building in 1931: a new roof,
reconstruction of the interior, connection with the city sewer, a modern heating
system, plumbing, a cement driveway. The cost will come to about $15,000.

Hitherto the doors of the institution have stood open to all applicants,
whether they are Lutheran or not. In the other two institutions only Lutherans
are admitted.

However, in Greensboro outside pupils may be admitted only in such a number
that their presence requires no new expenditures for buildings and professors'
salaries.

Higher education among the Negro population here has risen in recent years to
such an extent that the high-school training of our colored pastors no longer
suffices. The faculty asks that two years be added to the course and that the
institution thus become a junior college. After careful examination the
Commission supports the request.

After Director Nau has pointed out in his report that the institution is very
backward with respect to equipment, he concludes with the words: "Yet it shall
not remain unsaid that our