Loma Linda Messages

Educational Council, Santa Rosa Campmeeting, June 24, 26, 1912

Teacher's Institute Expense.

Your committee on summer school expense submit for your consideration the following recommendations: LLM 606.4

1. That the institute for 1913 be carefully planned so that the expense may be reduced to the minimum consistent with good work. LLM 606.5

2. That the expense for board, transportation, and instructor's salary be pooled, and twenty-five percent of the same be met by the Pacific Union Conference, and the seventy-five percent remaining be apportioned to the several local conferences according to the number of teachers from the respective fields in attendance. LLM 606.6

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Your committee appointed to consider definite plans to make our schools self-supporting, submit for your consideration the following suggestions: LLM 606.7

1. We believe that the time has come for us as managers and principals to give closer study than heretofore to the cost of operating our schools, lest the unfortunate experiences of the past will be constantly repeated. LLM 606.8

2. And investigation should be made at the beginning of each term and schedules of prospective income and expense of each department carefully drawn. At the close of each school month the expense and revenue producing departments should be carefully inspected in order that we may know that the work is on a safe basis. LLM 606.9

3. The income from tuition should not be expended entirely on teachers' salaries, but enough should be saved to cover the cost of heating, lighting, and caring for the tool rooms, and providing the necessary supplies that must be furnished for consumption therein, and at least one-third of the administrative and office expense. LLM 607.1

4. The boarding department should be so arranged as to produce a profit of not less than fifteen percent net after all expenses for labor, fuel, laundry, provisions and renewals have been provided for. This surplus will then be left to apply on a portion of the administrative and office expenses. LLM 607.2

5. The industries, such as farm and garden and shop, should be more than self-supporting. LLM 607.3

6. The dormitory income, after meeting the expenses connected therewith, should be sufficient to meet the repairs and depreciation and interest charges, taxes and insurances, heat and light. LLM 607.4

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7. Great care should be exercised in not overloading the school with students that are to work all or part of their way, so that it is impossible for the management to reap the full advantage to be gained from the fifteen hours a week that each boarding student is to perform. The body of the boarding workers should be organized for the performing of all the routine work of the school. LLM 607.5

8. Inasmuch as our rates are based upon full cash monthly payments, it is necessary to see that none are in arrears. To allow accounts to run a year means the borrowing of money to meet the bills, saying nothing of the loss in accounts that is sustained. LLM 607.6

9. When the chairman of the board, the principal and the business manager discover that the institution is running behind, the situation should be reported at once to the managing board, who should take steps immediately to either change the policy or the management of the institution. LLM 607.7

10. Resolved, That we arrange for our teachers to work fifteen hours a week with the students in manual labor. LLM 607.8

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1. In order to strengthen our church-school work, we recommend the elementary courses be dropped from our normal departments as soon as possible. LLM 607.9

2. That music and art be left optional with each school. LLM 607.10

3. That special courses for workers be arranged by the Pacific Union College only. LLM 607.11

4. That Armona Academy offer the academic courses. LLM 607.12

5. That the Lodi Normal Institute offer the Normal Course, Academic Course, and, Business Course. LLM 607.13

6. That Fernando Academy carry an elementary ministerial course, a normal course, and an academic course. LLM 608.1

7. That Pacific Union College give courses in business, normal preparatory medical, ministerial, and collegiate work. LLM 608.2

8. That we approve of the efforts of Pacific Union College to secure recognition from the State University, and that our schools of high school grade be free to apply for accrediting when they meet the requirements. LLM 608.3

9. That the Pacific Union College have the right to go to any field to secure students for courses above the twelfth grade and that the president be expected to attend all campmeetings and be free to distribute catalogs and other literature concerning the school. LLM 608.4

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10. That we recognize the right of the President of the conference from which the students go to any of our schools, to call those students for work in his conference, and the heads of the schools must use their influence to have the students return to their respective conferences. LLM 608.5

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We recommend that students passing from one school to another in mid term be required to present from the Principal of the school from which they have come a letter showing their standing; and that we discourage the acceptance during the current year by one school of students that have been expelled from another. LLM 608.6

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