# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1938_S42
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42 Report of the Committee on.Higher Education

terial schools and the Seminary at St. Louis can best. be achieved
with the help and under the guidance of a central agency;

3. The educational problems confronting all our synodical in-
stitutions (e.g., accreditation, general higher education, coeduca-
tion, library facilities, faculty competence) are becoming more
complex;

4. Our synodical institutions desire a central agency which
can assist them in solving their educational problems.

II. We furthermore recommend that

1, The Board for Higher Education shall be constituted of seven
members, as follows: three pastors, one teacher or superintendent
of schools, and three laymen, The President of Synod is an ex-
officio member.

2. The Board for Higher Education shall be appointed by the
President of Synod in consultation with the Vice~-Presidents.

3. The term of office shall be six years, four members to be
appointed in one triennium and three in the next.

4. The Board shall appoint a standing Advisory Committee,
consisting of one representative from each faculty, to meet at the
call of the Board. This committee shall study the curricular prob-
lems of our institutions and submit its findings and reeommenda-
tions to the Board. The Board may also appoint special com-
mittees and technical advisers.

III. We furthermore recommend that the following regulations
shall govern the Board during the next triennium:

1. The Board shall continue the supervision of the new curricula
which have been adopted and are being put into operation in the
high schools, junior colleges, teachers’ colleges, and theological
seminaries for the training of pastors and teachers. It shall also
make provision for the further study of these curricula, and
changes shall be made only under its direction and with its
approval.

2. The Board shall supervise the enforcement of the Institu-
tional Standards and Policies as adopted by the Committee on
Higher Education and published in the reports of the curriculum
committees (in 1937 and 1938). To this end it shall make surveys,
advise local boards and faculties, make recommendations to the
Board of Directors and to Synod regarding necessary expenditures
in connection with putting the standards and policies into effect,
and by all means in its power assist the institutions to reach and
maintain these standards.

3. The Board shall also be available for service in an advisory
capacity to the faculties and the boards of control as well as to the