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LCMS Convention Proceedings St. Louis, Missouri — 1959, Page 125

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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

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for regular and special students and for the in-service education of
pastors and teachers.

; b. The terminal institutions of the Synod may be authorized
by the Board for Higher Education to conduct schools for graduate
f studies or correspondence schools under the direction of the respec-

tive Boards of Control and faculties for regular and special students
and for the in-service education of pastors and teachers.

c. The Board for Higher Education shall help the institutions
operating approved summer schools, schools for graduate studies,
or correspondence schools to secure teaching personnel, to prepare
adequate curricula and programs of studies, to co-ordinate the
programs of the various institutions offering such special programs,
and to assist in the financial support of these programs where this
becomes necessary.

6.162 The Transfer Student

A qualified student applying for admission to an educational
institution of the Synod, after previous attendance at another
synodical institution, shall be admitted only after the admitting
institution has received proper credentials, cumulative records,
and a favorable recommendation from the president of the synodi-
cal institution which the student last attended.

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6.163 Placement of Church Workers in the Synod

a. Every regular student, special supply student, vicar, or
graduate of an authorized synodical institution or approved synodi-
cal training program declared qualified for placement shall be as-
signed a first placement by the College of Presidents acting as
a Board of Assignment.

b. Students who for any reasons have not completed their
program of studies at the Synod’s educational institutions shall not
be eligible for temporary or permanent engagement by congrega-
tions, or other agencies within the Synod, without the consent and
approval of the respective faculty and District President. The fac-
ulties of the Synod’s terminal schools shall consider applications
for temporary supply work by their students only when such
applications have received prior approval of the respective District
President.

c. Theological students shall do internship as vicars, ordinarily
in the second year before seminary graduation.

d. Candidates eligible for calls are students who have com-
pleted the prescribed courses of studies, have received their
diplomas from their respective institutions, and have in every