LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1981, Page 272

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272 HIGHER EDUCATION

not call a pastor to teach in a seminary until that pastor has
completed five years of service as a parish pastor.

Trinity Lutheran Church
Great Bend, N. Dak.
Elroy Stein, Chairman
Dallas Rossow, Secretary

6-68

To Encourage Continuing Education

WHEREAS, Various professions recognize the ongoing need
for an organized program of professional growth by requiring
their members to meet certain standards regularly in organized
programs of continuing education; and

WHEREAS, All ministers of the Gospel face the urgent need to
keep on growing in theology and its proper application in
practice; and

WHEREAS, The Dallas convention (1977) adopted Res. 6-20,
“To Expand Continuing Education,” to encourage planning
and implementing a program of continuing education; there-
fore be it

Resolved, That all church workers be encouraged to take
advantage of presently existing programs of continuing educa-
tion available to them; and be it further

Resolved, That all congregations be urged to make time and
funds available to their full-time workers for continuing educa-
tion; and be it further

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education be charged
to convene a committee including representatives of the sem-
inaries and parish pastors to study and draw up a suggested
plan of continuing education for pastors: and be it finally

Resolved, That this committee be asked to report through
the Board for Higher Education to the next convention of the
Synod.

Faculty

Concordia Seminary

St. Louis, Mo.

Robert Hoerber, Secretary

6-69

To Establish Policies for Leaves
for College Administrative Staffs

WHEREAS, Synodical colleges and seminaries for efficient
operation have developed a growing dependency on the profes-
sional expertise of nonteaching administrative staff persons;
and

WHEREAS, The schools in many instances benefit by the
service of such individuals over an extended period of years;
and

WHEREAS, The administrative staff persons in question
might obviously benefit by advanced educational pursuits or
by segments of time set aside for special projects of personal
and professional interest in the midst of their careers; and

WHEREAS, There are no established provisions for granting
periods of sabbatical or educational leave to any college or
seminary personnel who do not hold faculty rank; therefore be
it

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education in consulta-
tion with the presidents of synodical colleges and seminaries
be instructed to devise acceptable terms and standards to
govern the granting of educational and sabbatical leaves to
nonteaching administrative staff persons.

Board of Control

Concordia Lutheran College
Austin, Tex.

Ray F. Martens, Executive Officer

6-70

To Discontinue the Declaration of Intent
WHEREAS, The circumstances of the World War II era which

led to the introduction and continuing use of the Declaration of
Intent are no longer timely; and

WHEREAS, The signing of such a declaration by students
frequently calls into question their eligibility for various
federal and state funds; and

WHEREAS, The synodical requirement that al] students
enrolled who are preparing for church work occupations must
annually complete the Declaration of Intent form has jeopar-
dized the availability of various state funds for some of our
colleges; and

WHEREAS, The Board for Higher Education has granted
exemptions from the use of the Declaration of Intent form for
two schools on an experimental basis; and

WHEREAS, These experimental exemptions have proved to
be satisfactory and have met the needs of the students, the
schools, and the Board for Higher Education; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education be autho-
rized to discontinue the requirement of the Declaration of
Intent form among the synodical colleges and seminaries.

Board for Higher Education
Walter L. Rosin, Executive Secretary

6-71

To Modify the Church Work
Deposit Fee Requirement

WHEREAS, A form of Church Work Deposit fee has been a
synodical requirement for all church-work students for some-
what over 40 years; and

WHEREAS, The Synod in convention has from time to time
revised the amount of the deposit, the process by which the
funds are impounded by the synodical treasurer, and the
procedures governing returns to graduates; and

WHEREAS, The eligibility of some schools and their students
for state funds has been brought into question by the synodical
Church Work Deposit fee policy; and

WHEREAS, The interest generated by the funds in the
synodical Church Work Deposit fee account plus the forfeitures
are regularly distributed among the schools by the Board for
Higher Education as scholarship funds to be awarded to
church-work students within each school’s financial aid
policies; and

WHEREAS, The scholarship funds generated by the Church

Work Deposit fee constitute the sole source of such funds
available to the Board for Higher Education; therefore be it

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education continue to
implement the Church Work Deposit fee policy on behalf of the
Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the Board for Higher Education be autho-
rized to modify the policy for selected institutions or grant an
exemption from the Church Work Deposit fee requirement as
the needs of the various institutions require; and be it finally

Resolved, That the scholarship funds generated by the
Church Work Deposit fee account continue to be distributed
among the participating colleges for support of church-work
students.

Board for Higher Education
Walter L. Rosin, Executive Secretary

6-72

To Observe Anniversary
of St. Paul’s College

WHEREAS, St. Paul’s College and College High will, God
willing, celebrate its centennial in 1988; and

WHEREAS, A campus endeavoris already under way to focus
attention of the college and its supporting congregations ona
centennial celebration in 1983; and

WHEREAS, St. Paul’s is the only remaining educational
institution of Synod maintaining the six-year patern of four-
year high school and junior college; therefore be it