 In 1963 he was named director of the Purdue University's Indianapolis campus.From January 1964 to October 1965 he was interim director, on part-time loan from Purdue, of the Indiana Vocational Technical College, a new institution created by the State of Indiana to provide vocational technical education at the post high school level.In February 1969 he was promoted to vice chancellor and dean, with rank of full professor in higher education, of the Indiana University-Purdue University joint campus at Indianapolis.