 Three years later, he became associate dean of the university, and in 1974, he became vice president of the school's research foundation and soon after dean of the graduate school.After serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs and professor of psychology at Bradley University in Illinois for ten years, he moved to the University of Maine in 1987 as vice president for academic affairs and professor of psychology.Four years later he was named interim president of the school before accepting the presidency at the University of Central Florida.