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appointments to theology faculties of Synod colleges and universities (Bylaw 3.10.6.9.2);

(d) create and maintain a Model Operating Procedures Manual for Faculty and Administration Complaints and Appeal of Termination:

Colleges and Universities, subject to approval by the Commission on Constitutional Matters, regarding the handling of faculty and staff complaints and dispute resolution by college/university boards of regents, to include notification of any relevant ecclesiastical supervisor, and monitor compliance with such;

(e) monitor, inquire into, and report to the President of the Synod regarding the ongoing faithfulness of Synod’s colleges and universities to the doctrine, practice, and objectives of the Constitution of the Synod (Const. Art. II and III);

(f) monitor— after input from the Office of National Mission; the Department of Rosters, Statistics, and Research Services; the Council of Presidents; and the Synod’s seminaries — and report to the Synod on the enrollment, graduation, placement, and retention rat es in programs leading to candidacy for commissioned ministry or to seminary enrollment and advise the schools on the Synod’s worker needs and opportunities for coordination;

(g) receive, revise, and recommend to conventions of the Synod for approval any proposals for creating, essentially revising, or renaming programs of study and certification for commissioned ministry;

(h) in addition to providing its own report, review and respond in each Synod convention Workbook to a detailed triennial strategic report prepared by the Institution Advisory Council, summarizing the state of and outlook for church worker preparation and confessional Lutheran lay education, campus, and ethos;

Assistive and coordinative roles:

(i) assist the Synod and its colleges and universities in articulating and advancing the schools’ unified public confession and application of the church’s doctrine and practice, and, in coordination with the Board of Directors of the Synod, assist in advancing the common defense of their rights to the free exercise of our confession under the Constitution of the United States and other applicable laws;

(j) develop and administer, on behalf of the Synod and subject to policies of the Board of Directors of the Synod, financial resources designated to assist the schools in their pursuit of the Standards, in strengthening of churchly identity, and in their achievement of mission outcomes;

(k) regularly convene the college and university presidents and, as needed, other leadership to facilitate the schools’ coordination, cooperation, and consolidation of operations, in part or in whole, wherever prudent and practically feasible, while not itself assuming any operational or financial responsibility for such efforts;

(l) after input from the President and Secretary of the Synod, the Institution Advisory Council, and the boards of regents of Synod colleges and universities, serve as a resource for the recruitment of highly and variously qualified potential regents, offering in nomination