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Today's Business, Issue 3. p. 338. Revised published proposal.
Official Resolution Source Text
Resolution: 7-08A
Canonical number: 7-08
Committee: University Education
Source: Today's Business, Issue 3
Printed pages: p. 338
PDF pages: 30
Version: revised, current-published-proposal
Source reference: Issue 3, p. 338
Line numbers follow Today's Business, Issue 3, with numbering reset on each printed page, so delegates can compare this page with the official PDF.
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- To Study Synodwide Corporate Status of Concordia University System
- RESOLUTION 7-08A
- Overtures 7-01–03 (CW, 417–22); Late Overture L7-30 (TB, 1:49)
- WHEREAS, Overture 7-01, “To Amend Bylaws to Convert Concordia University System, the Synodwide Corporate
- Entity, into Commission for University Education, ” was submitted by the LCMS Board of Directors (BOD) for
- consideration at the 2026 Synod convention; and
- WHEREAS, Overtures 7-02 and 7-03, “To Affirm and Sustain Concordia University System as Synodwide Corporate
- Entity,” were put forward by the Concordia University System (CUS) Board of Directors and St. John Lutheran Church
- in Springfield, Pa. , respectively ; and Overture L7-30, “To Affirm and Retain Concordia University System as
- Synodwide Corporate Entity,” was put forward by the Concordia University, Nebraska Board of Regents; and
- WHEREAS, Overtures 7-01–03 and L7-30 are irreconcilable with one another; and
- WHEREAS, The BOD submitted Overture 7-01 in the interests of its duty to attend to financial and liability issues of
- the Synod; and
- WHEREAS, CUS no longer carries out business or line-of-credit management functions on behalf of the universities,
- resulting in there being no need for a separate corporation; and
- WHEREAS, CUS is served by corporate Synod accounting and audit functions already, making its operations easily
- assimilable, and the transition of CUS to a commission from a synodwide corporate entity, potentially practicable; and
- WHEREAS, The monumental shifts in the landscape of higher education, both within and outside the Synod, make
- it difficult to fully assess and evaluate the impact of such a transition of CUS at this time ; therefore be it
- Resolved, That the Synod in convention direct the BOD and the CUS Board of Directors , in consultation with the
- Institution Advisory Council, to analyze the relative strengths and weaknesses between retaining the CUS as a
- corporation and converting the CUS into a commission of the Synod, and propose the best model to the 2029 convention.
- The Chief Financial Officer and LCMS Accounting and Financial Services staff, in consultation with the Finance
- Committee, estimate incremental cost to the named entities, for in-person meetings, of $75,000 (estimate required by
- Bylaw 3.1.7 [g]).
Published Proposed Amendments
This amendment is printed as a proposal and is not incorporated into the current resolution text unless official convention action confirms adoption. The printed amendment may reference an earlier version of the resolution.
Published Proposed Amendment to Resolution 7-08
Issue 5, p. 413, Issue 5, p. 413, lines 1-12, status: Proposed
Submitted by Steven Mueller, Pastoral Delegate, Pacific Southwest District
7. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION To Study Synodwide Corporate Status of Concordia University System AMENDMENT TO RESOLUTION 7-08A Resolution 7-08A (TB, 3:338) To strike out, at TB 3:338, lines 32–33, the words “and the CUS Board of Directors, in consultation with the Institution Advisory Council,” and replace it with “, the CUS Board of Directors, and the Presidents of the Concordia universities,” so as to make lines 32–34 read: Resolved, That the Synod in convention direct the BOD, the CUS Board of Directors, and the presidents of the Concordia universities to analyze the relative strengths and weaknesses between retaining the CUS as a corporation and converting the CUS into a commission of the Synod, and propose the best model to the 2029 convention. Steven Mueller Pastoral Delegate, Pacific Southwest District
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