"In this comprehensive and candid study of the Danforth Commission on Church Colleges and Universities, the authors collected and analyzed statistics describing many aspects of these institutions and their problems. They compare them with the public and independent institutions." --Page [2] of cover.

Eight hundred colleges face the future; a preliminary report of the Danforth Commission on Church Colleges and Universities. Manning M. Pattillo, Jr., Donald M. Mackenzie.

Scholar and educator James Tunstead Burtchaell provides case studies of 17 prominent colleges and universities with diverse ecclesial origins, analyzing the processes that eroded the bonds between school and church over time.