# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S108
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

106 Report of Board for Higher Education

shall be made by the local Board of Control in consultation with
the Board for Higher Education.

3. Upon reaching the age of 70, a professor shall be entitled to
honorable retirement. Any continued service after the age of
retirement shall be determined by the local Board of Control in
consultation with the Board of Electors.

4. All financial problems in connection with this plan shall
be referred for final action to the Board of Directors after due
consultation with the Board for Higher Education and the local
Board of Control.

Concerning incompetent professors, under Section G, Com-
mittee 1 recommended adoption of the recommendation of the
Board for Higher Education, namely:

That, as heretofore, the initiative is to be taken by the local
Board of Control, which should act with courage and in Christian
charity.

Concerning the transfer of professors, under Section G, Com-
mittee 1 reported:

With respect to the transfer of professors your Committee
suggests that the recommendation be omitted from the present
report and be referred to the Board for Higher Education for
further study.

Concerning the differentiating between several ranks of
teachers, under Section G, Committee 1 recommended:

That the study of this question be continued during the coming
triennium in connection with the general survey which will be
recommended to this convention.

Concerning Section H, Committee 1 brought in the following
recommendation:

The Board of Directors is instructed to continue the practice
of granting sums for the program of physical education, but that
the maximum amount for each institution per annum be reduced
to $500.

Action of Synod: These recommendations were adopted.

II. Proposed General Survey

The synodical convention of 1938 instructed the Board for
Higher Education to study the whole problem of general higher
education, coeducation, and institutional financing, and to submit
recommendations to the present convention. Accordingly, your
Board made a search for all available data which might clarify the
problems of Synod’s institutions and also made a careful review of
all available suggestions for the solution of these problems. These
investigations have led the Board for Higher Education to the fol-
lowing tentative conclusions: