LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1973, Page 257

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HIGHER EDUCATION 257

addition to our present library. Other needs include a fine
arts facility and additional physical education facilities.

Service to Synod
Placement of Teachers

Year Type Men Wemen Total
1970—1971 Elementary 132 203 335
Secondary 27 5 32
DCE 5 1 6
Worker ‘Priest 7 0 7
1971—1972 Elementary 125 194 319
Secondary 22 9 31
DCE i) 0 9
Worker’ Priest 3 1 4
Other

Our school and its faculty provide many other services
to the Synod, including service on boards, presentation of
essays, provision of scholarly skills, and the dissemination of
three major periodicals, Issues, the Broadcaster. and the
Alumni Bulletin to a large part of our constituency.

Conclusion

Thanking God for His mercies this report is presented to
the church for information, edification, and hopefully to
stimulate continued and growing support.

BoarD OF CONTROL

Frederick Niedner, Chairman
Elmer Luessenhop, Secretary

W. Th. Janzow, Executive Officer

6-07

Concordia Teachers College
River Forest, I.

Concordia has concluded an eventful biennium. Dr.
Martin L. Koehneke, sixth president of Concordia, resigned
only a few months before the dedication of the building
named after him, the Koehneke Community Center. Dr.
Carl F. Halter was named acting president effective June 13,
1972. This report is submitted by the Board of Control in
account of these past 2 years.

PURPOSE

Concordia exists, as it always has. to train educators for
service in the Evangelical Lutheran church.

Since Lutheran teaching ministers increasingly are being
asked to provide a greater variety of services, the college
has expanded its program to enable its graduates to meet
a variety of needs.

ACADEMIC PROGRAM

Undergraduate Program

All Concordia graduates are required to meet state re-
quirements for elementary school teaching. The under-
graduate curriculum includes programs in elementary edu-
cation, secondary education, director of Christian education
and director of church music. A new undergraduate cur-
riculum was instituted in the fall of 1972.

Concordia has also begun to offer on campus the first
year of the program for nursing students from Lutheran
General and Deaconess Hospitals, Park Ridge, Ill.

Three major reviewing agencies, the Board for Higher
Fducation of The Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher
Fducation, visited the school. All had kind words about
the college: the North Central Association extended accredi-
tation to the various programs of the school. The report
from NCATE will become available this summer.

Graduate Program

Concordia granted the first Master of Church Music de-
grees in the summer of 1972. This program received pre-
liminary accreditation by the North Central Association

following its visit to the Concordia campus in the spring
of 1972. The following program options are now available:
Master of Arts in Education with a curriculum or adminis-
tration emphasis: the Master of Church Music: and in affili-
ation with Concordia Seminary. St. Louis, the Master of Arts
in Religion. Admission into the MAR Program and the
granting of the degree are under the jurisdiction of Concor-
dia Seminary. Since the college first awarded graduate de-
grees in 1959. a total of 459 Master of Arts in Education de-
grees have been awarded as of September 1972. Approxi-
mately 450 are currently enrolled in the graduate program.

Summer School

Concordia’s summer school program has seen significant
growth in the number of students who come from the com-
munity to enrich their education. In addition, the summer
school program attracts large numbers of regular students
and teachers in the field. Besides the two basic 5-week
terms, several short term and evening courses have been
instituted. Noncredit seminars are also being offered in the
summer and throughout the year for pastors and teachers.

Center for Continuing Education

Through this division the college offers a number of ser-
vices to publics bevond its own student body. Of primary
importance in the Center are the Correspondence and Ex-
tension Divisions. The enrollments in the Correspondence
Division during the past biennium were as follows:

1970—1971: 1.407 students
19711972: 842 students *

*Decline occurred because student teaching correspondence
course is no longer required.

Extension Division enrollments have again increased
over the previous 2 years. The figures are as follows:
1968—1970: 1,390 students
1970—1972: 2,184 students

The Extension Division sponsored the following activities
during the past 2 years:

a. Extension courses for Lutheran elementary teachers
were again offered during the summer of 1971 at Alabama
Lutheran Academy and College in Selma.

b. A number of courses in education were sponsored for
elementary teachers in the Michigan District during the
1970—1971 school year. Among the institutes and non-credit
offerings from the Center of Continuing Education over the
past years. the following are notable: Art Workshop; Drama
Institute: Spanish Intensification Program: Mathematics
Workshop: National Conference on Funding Christian Edu-
cation: Dyslexia Institute: Social Science Institute; and Lec-
tures in Church Music.

Special Programs
Consortia
The college has continued its involvement in two con-
sortia, the Associated College in the Chicago Area and the
Chicago Consortium. Arrangements have been made with
Rosary College so that our students may study at this col-
lege at no extra cost. The arrangement is reciprocal.

Young Talent in the Church

In the past vears the college has sponsored two programs,
STEP ONE and SEARCH. for high school students talented
in the areas of music and science. In the summer of 1973,
these programs are being maintained. Three new programs
have been added. SOMMERSCHULE is being offered for
high school students who show interest and ability in the
German language. EXCEL tries to cultivate the talent of
young men and women interested in physical education
and to teach them how to use their talents in the service
of the parish. The YOUNG ARTISTS program is teaching
talented high school artists the basic elements of design
and artistic expression through a number of different media.

Diaconate

The Diaconate Program of the college is now in its
fourth year. The program, designed to give professional
training to deacons within the Missouri Synod, is under the
direction of Dr. William H. Griffen of Concordia’s faculty.