# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_1973_S282
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

284 HIGHER EDUCATION

trol of the institution wishing to confer such a degree: or
upon any person elected to or serving on the Board for
Higher Education; or upon any person elected to or holding
any office which directly or indirectly has governing author-
ity over the institution wishing to confer an honorary degree.

Hore LutuHeran Cuyurcu
Chicago, III.

Kenneth Hoppet. President
Herbert Wians, Pastor

6-66

To Sell Irvine Property

Wuereas, There has been a decrease in enrollment in col-
leges and universities throughout the country; and

Wuereas, The birth rate has also been declining suggest-
ing that the number of teachers and preachers needed in the
future will remain relatively the same: and

Wuereas, For the past several years our colleges and
seminaries have to an extent been unable to secure calls
for available graduates; and

Wuereas, Pacific Lutheran University and California
Lutheran College have for the most part been able to satisfy
the Lutheran demand for liberal arts colleges on the west
coast; and

WHEREAS, The interests of the entire Lutheran community
are probably best served by cooperative effort in establish-
ing any new colleges and universities; and

WHEREAS, Concordia College, Portland. fulfills the ex-
pected demands for a Junior College program in teacher
and ministerial training for the west coast: and

Whereas, The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has
developed a sufficient number of 4-year colleges in the past
years (examples: Concordia College, St.Paul, Minn., and
Concordia College, Bronxville, N. Y.); and

WHEREAS, The geographical location of a college is largely
immaterial in terms of availability to students (as for exam-
ple our two seminaries in the midwest and also our two
teachers colleges which have been accessible to students
throughout the country, the only additional cost factor being
that of transportation); and

Wuereas, To our knowledge no adequate study has been
made public which demonstrates the pressing need for a
college at Irvine; and

WHEREAS, The church’s most pressing task in our judg-
ment is its mission to the inner city; and

Wuereas, This mission has been largely neglected in the
past by our Synod; and

WHEREAS, Inner city churches are to a great extent unable
to establish and maintain educational ministries; and

Wuereas, The Synod itself has stated in its constitution
(synodical Handbook, 1969, p. 146, 7.05 B)

that elementary and secondary schools be stressed in the mission

of the church, both in self-sustaining and in subsidized congre-

gations; and that the Synod through the Districts advance the

cause of the elementary and secondary schools by S8ranting sub-
sidies to schools where such action is necessary;

and

Whereas, These additional ministries in the inner city are
the pressing obligation of the entire Synod; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod in convention in New Orleans
establish, maintain, and subsidize schools on both the ele-
mentary and secondary levels in the inner city; and be it
further

Resolved, That the initial monies necessary to establish
such schools and ministries include, but not be limited to,
those funds and assets derived from disposing of the prop-
erty presently designated for the college at Irvine, Calif.

FaitH LutHeran Cuurcu
Inglewood, Calif.

Herbert Hohenstein, Pastor
W. Hz. Seifert, President

6-67

To Postpone Irvine Project

Wuereas, Higher education in the United States is in
a State of flux and uncertainty brought about by declining
enrollments and vagueness of trends: and

WHEREAS, Times, needs, and conditions relating to Lu-
theran higher education have changed significantly during
the past few vears: and

Wuereas, The Synod has been forced to cut its support
of each of its 16 institutions of higher learning: and

WHEREAS, Urgent ministries of the church are being cur-
tailed and even crippled for lack of funds; and

Wuereas, The Synod's current capability to fill its re-
quirements for people trained in the church vocations is
more than adequate, and could be augmented within the
physical facilities already at hand: and

Wuereas, Given today's high levels of transportation and
communications technologies the concept of “regional” col-
leges is outmoded: and

WuerREas, A new, fully accredited Lutheran liberal arts
college — California Lutheran College at Thousand Oaks,
Calif. — already exists in Southern California: and

Wuereas, Enrollment experience at Concordia, Oakland,
does not justify local enthusiasm for a California college;
therefore be it

Resolved, That the Synod postpone any further considera-
tion of, and any expenditure or appropriation for, the de-
velopment of a college at Irvine, Calif., until a time when
trends in higher education generally, and in Lutheran higher
education specifically, shall have become more discernible
and the Synod's need for yet another regional college can
adequately be demonstrated in the context of the recent
experiences in higher education, and of the Synod.

FaltH LUTHERAN CHURCH
Monmouth, Oreg.

Marven R. Petersen, President
Robert G. Ogan, Secretary