# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1941_S116
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

114 Report of Board for Higher Education

The buildings on the Concordia campus include an admin-
istration, music, hospital, refectory, gymnasium-auditorium, two
dormitories, a light- and power-plant, and six professors’ dwellings.
One of the dormitories and the gymnasium were erected after
1924; the other buildings are old, and one, the Administration
Building, is in need of replacement. The eight-acre Winfield
campus contains the Administration Building, a dormitory for
sixty girls, a dormitory for 115 boys, a gymnasium, a heating-plant,
and six professors’ residences. Winfield’s capacity is 400 students,
except in the dormitories, which are limited to about 180. Seward’s
campus includes the Administration Building, a dormitory for
165 men, an older dormitory used partly for music instruction, a
refectory, a science building, a music building, a gymnasium, a
power-plant, and ten professors’ residences, Five buildings are
not over sixteen years old. Women students are quartered in
private homes.

The 1940—-1941 enrolment in Concordia is 93 students, although
it has a capacity for 180. Its enrolment has gradually declined
from 163 in 1980. Winfield’s enrolment is 185, but preministerial
students constitute fewer than one half of the total. At Seward the
enrolment dropped from 296 in 1929 to 129 in 1935, but is now at 167.

The faculty in Concordia includes eight professors, two of
whom approach retirement age. Winfield has nine professors,
three assistants, and several part-time instructors. Of Seward’s
twelve professors and one assistant, five have terminal degrees.

The cost to Synod per student usually has been low in Con-
cordia, but a decline in enrolment has raised this figure to a present
level of $209 a year. It is quite clear that low enrolment in Synod’s
institutions tend to cause high per-capita costs, Synod’s Auditor
estimates the cost per student in Winfield, allowing for special
students, at approximately $201 a year. The present cost per stu-
dent at Seward is $172,

The value of Concordia’s plant is about $300,000; of Winfield’s,
about $500,000; of Seward’s, about $610,000.

An analysis of readily available information shows that the
three schools (Concordia, Winfield, Seward) are within an area
having a 300-mile radius; that they have a combined enrolment
of 169 students preparing for the ministry, and 150 students pre-
paring for teaching. Either Winfield or Concordia could accom-
modate the combined enrolment with little or no additional over-
head expense and with room for expansion. The two schools (Win-
field and Concordia) cost Synod $41,619 annually for 169 students,
while Milwaukee costs only $33,952 for 235 students. Quite evi-
dently the resources of the two institutions could be combined at
considerable saving and greater efficiency. Slight: increases in