# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1944_S421
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nature’ and scope of the survey is defined in the synodical
1a in based on the Report of the Board for Higher Education
he. Thirty-Eighth Delegate Convention assembled at Fort
-June, 1941. The following resolution was proposed and
pted (Proceedings, p. 108): , cc

That the authority which the last synodical convention gave
the ‘Board for Higher Education to engage the services of
prof ssional aids in its work be supported by a specific appro-
priation of $6,000 for a complete institutional survey.

is appropriation for the salary of a competent, temporary,
‘full-time Survey Secretary, for the necessary fees: of con-
sultants not connected with Synod’s educational system, for
incidental office and clerical expenses connected with the
survey, and fora limited publication 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

already been performed.

‘That: the objectives of this survey be: (aa) to collect in
sufficient detail from ail synodical educational institutions in
“the United States and Canada all pertinent information about

administrative, and operating personnel; plant and equipment
inventories; detailed costs of: instruction, operation, adminis-
tration, and maintenance, enrollment and enrollment. trends,
trends in synodical demands for ministerial, ‘missionary, and
teaching services; (bb) to assemble, edit, and present this

changes will be of value.

That the proposed Survey Secretary submit to the Board for
Higher Education a detailed preliminary survey plan by
November 1, 1941.

; That the entire survey be completed by November 1, 1942,

That by April 1, 1943, the Board for Higher Education review
the results of the survey and prepare a statement ‘of conclu-
sions and recommendations which it expects to submit to the
synodical convention in 1944, ‘

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That .the Board for Higher Education be authorized to use’

is not to duplicate any satisfactory survey work which has.

the following major points: the activities of the instructional, °

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

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