[Lutheran Concordia College Faculty Meetings Minutes, 1952-1954] Page: 31 of 77
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April 14, 1953
At the request of President Beto the faculty assembled for a special
meeting at 4:00 P.M. Following a prayer offered by the President, the group
dispensed with the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting. With
dispatch the meeting was turned over to Dr. Martin J. Neeb, Executive Secre-
tary of the Board for Higher Education.
In his general remarks Dr. Neeb commented on the tremendous expense involved
in maintaining our schools. Rhetorically he asked whether or not the Church
is realizing proper value from the investment. Taking Concordia, Austin,
as an example, he mentioned that our plant has grown from a campus costing
slightly over $100,000 to a complex of buildings and land worth over
$1,000,000. A faculty, he implied, makes such an investment valuable. A
faculty must make a school's purpose coincide with that of Synod.
Present enrolments in all our higher schools total 4,100 students. One
thousand students are in the combined student bodies of our seminaries and
teachers colleges. Seven hundred young men are ready for assignment. The
Church needs a new plan for proper assignment and for gauging the progress
of these men after they are assigned. The synodical budget provides $2,100,000
for higher education. Our schools are staffed by 268 teachers, requiring a
payroll of over $lpO,000 for teaching personnel alone.
Taking Concordia, Austin, as an example, Dr. Neeb mentioned our budget of
$50,000 and our "large" (quotes ours) staff of nine full-time teachers with
an additional part-time teacher on the payroll.
In foretelling future needs Dr. Neeb indicated a possible over supply of
candidates for the preaching and teaching ministries. The suggestion was made
that our schools recruit students with the current vigor, but that they graduate
and/or recommend for further professional study only those who excel. A screening
committee composed of members of seminary faculties, teachers' college faculties
and preparatory school faculties might determine such eligible candidates for
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