This created a shortage of players and funds causing many of the athletic programs, such as the football team, to end operations.[7] Following the war enrollment increased dramatically and the university began a period of rapid development through the remainder of the 1940s.[7] In the 1950s OCU received accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.[7] The University then took control of the Oklahoma City College of Law and began a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to elevate the academics and the quality of education.[7] The Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel was dedicated in 1968 as part of a plan to expand OCU's spiritual life.