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The final phase of Ambassador began in the late 1970s and was characterized by constant uncertainty and indecision.

The Ambassador campus at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England, was closed in 1974, as operating funds were deemed necessary for other functions of the Worldwide Church of God.

For similar reasons, the Texas campus was shuttered in 1977, and all students who wished to were offered the opportunity to transfer to the original campus in Pasadena, California.

In the interim the decision had been made by church leadership to pursue regional accreditation in California.

However, in 1978 President Garner Ted Armstrong, son of college founder Herbert Armstrong, announced that everything would be moving back to the Texas campus, with the California facility becoming a graduate school.

Within months, however, the younger Armstrong was ousted from all positions in the church and college due to an unrelated scandal, and Herbert Armstrong, recovered from a heart attack, announced that Ambassador was closing its doors altogether.