 She next moved to the University of Redlands in Redlands, California, where she became Department Chair and Professor of Education.She was a coordinator of early childhood education in 1979, and in 1987 directed the Elementary Experimental Summer School, in which primary school students were given access to the university's computer facilities, library, and swimming pool.In 1992 Hensel moved to Maine and became Dean of the College of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington the same year.