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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 1975, Page 286

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286 HIGHER EDUCATION

Enrollment at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, reached its history been at varying levels because of its heavy dependence
peak in 1971 with 690 full-time students. The 1974 enrollment on recruitment from outside the synodical school system. Peak
reflects the theological controversy that saw the exodus of the enrollment at Springfield came in 1969 with 416 students: the
majority of the student body. Enrollment at Concordia Theo- 1974 enrollment of 372 ranks among the highest in the past

logical Seminary, Springfield, Ill., has throughout its recent 12 years.

ENROLLMENT AT THE SEMINARY LEVEL AT SAINT LOUIS AND SPRINGFIELD
1963-1974

1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974

81 104 102 122 100 88 131 99 114 91 88 106

82 57 83 103 127 lll 99 lll 84 103 90 83

100 79 68 68 93 94 87 83 102 69 98 85

118 98 84 67 71 99 74 80 94 74 98
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381 338 337 360 391 3 416 | 367 | 380 |

SPRINGFIELD*

Seminary I

Seminary IL

Seminary III (Vicars)

Seminary IV

TOTAL

ST, LOUIS"

Seminary I

Seminary II

Seminary III (Vicars)

Seminary IV

TOTAL

TOTAL SEMINARY ENROLLMENT:

*Post~graduate, part-time and special students not included.

EXTENT OF FULL-TIME GENERAL EDUCATION

Extent of Full-Time College General Education Enrollment ENROLIMEST AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL IN

The extent of full-time students pursuing general education SYNODICAL SCHOOLS
objectives at the synodical colleges has throughout history been 1974-1975
generally misunderstood. There have been periods when at
least half of all students were not committed to church work a. Full-Time Ger. Educ. GE. ast
vocations, yet it is also true that the pattern of general education Satoce Etrousent Enrollment oi tetas
enrollment between institutions is significantly different. In the JUNIOR COLLEGES ;
current school year, 1974-75, the average general education Ann Aroor #38 Lae 28.3
enrollment at junior colleges represents 47.7 percent of the total Austin 345 206 i
enrollment. However, this varies from a high of 89 percent to Convordia 108 28 26.0
a low of 26 percent. At the 4-year colleges, while the average Eémonton 63 56 89.0
is 18.8 percent, the general education enrollment varies from Milwaukee 294 129 au.
a high of 49.9 percent to a low of 7 percent. The college system Portland 198 ar 3.6
as a whole has an overall average of 27.5 percent general edu- ‘na 57 3 65.6
cation enrollment. intietd 250 Lis 46.0

The factors that appear to be involved in the percentage of coral Ter 3 =
general education enrollment at a given institution are the
density of Missouri Synod Lutherans in the vicinity of the col- L-YEAR COLLEGES
lege, the proximity of the institution to other LCMS institutions, a _ jee 7
and the educational philosophy of the institution from its foun- Brosava tte ~~ ™ ~
ding or early history. A number of our colleges were authorized River Forest roe , a
to experiment in coeducation and in general education some St. Pan fee ad ee
30 years ago. Other institutions have been single purpose in Seware iss a us
function from the start and have largely retained that char- Tetal 3248 b-6 see
acteristic.

Church Worker Students at Synodical Schools SENIOR COLLEGE

The number of college freshman pastoral and teacher edu- Be Bayne “e : ve
cation enrollment as a ratio of junior confirmands 4 years pre- - ; —. = SS
viously declined rather dramatically from 1963 to 1974. Fresh- GRAND TOTAL o78 ~~ i
man college pastoral enrollment as a ratio to confirmands has
gone from 1:107 in 1963 to 1:300 in 1974. Freshman male teacher ;
enrollment has gone from 1:140 to 1:257. Female teacher fresh- “Includes 15 students pursuing "ad hoc" preministerial pians