# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S110
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

108 Report of Board for Higher Education

of action respecting many of our institutional problems and discerns
a wide need for a common base of complete and dependable in-
formation.

Consequently your Board urgently recommends:

a) That the authority which the last synodical convention gave
the Board for Higher Education to engage the services of profes-
-sional aids in its work be supported by a specifie appropriation of
$6,000 for a complete institutional survey.

b) That the Board for Higher Education be authorized to use
this appropriation for the salary of a competent, temporary, full-
-time Survey Secretary, for the necessary fees of consultants not
connected with Synod’s educational system, for incidental office and
clerical expenses connected with the survey, and for a limited pub-
lication of the findings of the survey. It is understood that the
Board for Higher Education is to make every reasonable effort to
complete the survey at a cost less than $6,000. It is also understood
that this survey is not to duplicate any satisfactory survey work
which has already been performed.

c) That the objectives of this survey be: (aa) to collect in
sufficient detail from all synodical educational institutions in the
United States and Canada all pertinent information about the
following major points: the activities of the instructional, ad-
ministrative, and operating personnel; plant and equipment in-
ventories; detailed costs of instruction, operation, administration,
and maintenance, enrolment and enrolment trends, trends in
synodical demands for ministerial, missionary, and teaching ser-
vices; (bb) to assemble, edit, and present this information in one
comprehensive document; (cc) to develop a plan and devise means
for bringing up to date each year those sections of the survey for
which information on annual changes will be of value.

d) That the proposed Survey Secretary submit to the Board
for Higher Education a detailed preliminary survey plan by No-
vember 1, 1941.

e) That the entire survey be completed by November 1, 1942.

f) That by April 1, 1943, the Board for Higher Education
review the results of the survey and prepare a statement of con-
clusions and recommendations which it expects to submit to the
synodical convention in 1944.

g) That by May 1, 1943, the Board for Higher Education trans-
mit copies of its conclusions and recommendations to the officers
of Synod, to the Board of Directors, to the Presidents of all Dis-
tricts, and to the presidents of all synodical educational insti-
tutions.

h) That by November 1, 1943, the Board for Higher Education,
in cooperation with the Board of Directors, conduct an open hearing