ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that environmental and structural factors made it unlikely that any of these three schools could have been rapid improvement institutions. There was nothing we could find in the environmental situation of the schools that would prohibit academic improvement. However, such an assertion could not be made of at least two of the low improvement schools. To say that the administration of these three schools was unprofessional by the standards of American higher education would be to verge on the fulsome. Communication between the students and most of the religious faculty was virtually nonexistent, though at least at one school some of the religious faculty apparently did have fairly close relations with the students. It is much more difficult in this chapter to generalize about leadership problems of the three schools under consideration. The chapter describes the school as it was before the dramatic transformation with the appointment of the new president.
