 In the mid-1970s, he became director of the Center for Moral Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.He served as President of Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont (1975–1976); and he helped found the Goddard-Cambridge Center for Social Change.From the mid-1980s until his death, Graham was an adviser to the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy in Washington, D.C.

Dick Graham married Nancy Aring Graham on December 21, 1949 and enjoyed 57 years of marriage until his death in 2007.