  Important connections in representation theory arise from resolving a
finite-dimensional algebra by an endomorphism algebra of a
generator-cogenerator with finite global dimension; for instance, Auslander's
correspondence, classical Schur--Weyl duality and Soergel's Struktursatz. Here,
the module category of the resolution and the module category of the algebra
being resolved are linked via an exact functor known as Schur functor. In this
paper, we investigate how to measure the quality of the connection between
module categories of (projective) Noetherian algebras, $B$, and module
categories of endomorphism algebras of generators-relative cogenerators over
$B$ which are split quasi-hereditary Noetherian algebras. In particular, we are
interested in finding, if it exists, the highest degree $n$ so that the
endomorphism algebra of a generator-cogenerator provides an $n$-faithful cover,
in the sense of Rouquier, of $B$. The degree $n$ is known as Hemmer-Nakano
dimension of the standard modules. We prove that the Hemmer-Nakano dimension of
standard modules with respect to a Schur functor from a split highest weight
category over a field to the module category of a finite-dimensional algebra
$B$ is bounded above by the number of non-isomorphic simple modules of $B$. We
establish methods how to reduce computations of Hemmer-Nakano dimensions in the
integral setup to computations of Hemmer-Nakano dimensions over
finite-dimensional algebras. This theory allows us to derive results for Schur
algebras and the BGG category O in the integral setup from the
finite-dimensional case using relative dominant dimension. We exhibit several
structural properties of deformations of the blocks of the BGG category O
establishing an integral version of Soergel's Struktursatz. We show that
deformations of the combinatorial Soergel's functor have better homological
properties than the classical one.
