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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1969, Page 323

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HIGHER EDUCATION 323

(6-45)
To Establish Higher Education
Study Committee

WuereEas, Many ideas, suggestions, and proposals
have been offered in recent years regarding the Synod’s
system of higher education, some of which suggest that
we maintain the status quo, others of which suggest
minor or major changes in the number and type of ed-
ucational institutions owned and operated by the Synod;
and

Wuereas, The Synod’s recent fiscal problems ac-
centuate the need for a thorough analysis of the quan-
tity and quality of higher education the congregations
are likely to demand and will be able to afford in the
years to come; and

Wuereas, The standing boards of the Synod are al-
ready heavily burdened with responsibilities and as-
signments; and

Wuereas, The national educational establishment,
being faced with a similar even though much larger
problem, has appointed an ad hoc committee com-
pletely autonomous of all existing boards (“Carnegie
Study of Higher Education”); therefore be it

Resolved, That The Lutheran Church — Missouri
Synod establish an ad hoc committee to make a thorough
investigation of the quantity and quality of higher edu-
cation the congregations are likely to demand and will
be able to afford in the years to come; and be it further

Resolved, That the committee consist of seven mem-
bers carefully selected from the lay and ministerial
membership of the Synod and appointed by the Presi-
dent of the Synod; and be it further

Resolved, That the committee be authorized to em-
ploy a full-time or part-time executive secretary to
serve as a professional research aid to the committee;
and be it finally

Resolved, That the committee set the synodical con-
vention of 1971 as target date for completion of the
study and that it present its findings at that convention.

Boarp OF CONTROL

ConcorDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE
Seward, Nebr.

Henry W. NIERMANN, Chairman
Oscar W. Wik, Secretary

W. Tu. Janzow, Executive Officer

(6-46)
To Give Authority to Restructure
Higher Education System

Wuereas, The maintainance of a number of small
colleges has been costly to the Synod in relation to bene-
fits received; and

Whereas, A number of schools located closer to each
other than necessary in our day of rapid transportation

and in areas which are rural or near no population cen-
ter or other institution of learning, thereby depriving
both students and faculty of opportunities for broader
education, culture, or opportunities to serve the church;

and

Wuereas, Our own provincialism is causing each area
to hold out for its own school rather than seeing the
needs of the whole church so that to close or move an
existing school would cause much strife on a convention
floor; therefore be it

Resolved,

That the Denver convention empower the Board for
Higher Education together with the District Presidents
and representatives of each school’s Board of Control
to restudy the whole higher education system of the
Synod and take action to close, combine, or relocate
schools if necessary;

That any new schools established be located near
population centers where the church is dynamic and
growing so that students and faculty may more effec-
tively serve the church, and that preference be given
to sites near secular universities or close to larger li-
braries and other cultural advantages; and

That a moratorium be declared on further building
projects at any school where the future is in doubt until
the above steps are taken.

St. Joun’s LUTHERAN CHURCH
El Segundo, Calif.
Pau. M. LutrmMann, Secretary

(6-47)

To Delegate to a Special Council Final
Decision on Establishing, Altering,
and Closing Colleges

Wuereas, It is difficult for delegates in convention
assembled to make intelligent judgments regarding such
complicated and far-reaching matters as the establish-
ment of new colleges, the closing of existing colleges,
or the major alteration of the institutional purpose of
existing colleges; therefore be it

Resolved, That henceforth the final decision regard-
ing the establishment of new colleges, the closing of
existing colleges, and the major alteration of institu-
tional purpose of existing colleges (the term college be-
ing used to refer to all institutions of higher education)
be delegated to a Higher Education Council consisting
of one representative from each synodical District to be
appointed by each District President and to be con-
vened, as needed, by the President of the Synod.

Boarp OF CONTROL

CONCORDIA TEACHERS COLLEGE
Seward, Nebr.

Henry W. NiIERMANN, Chairman
Oscar W. WILK, Secretary

W. Tu. JaNzow, Executive Officer