1972-1997 Chairperson, Department of Communication Studies, West Virginia University
1978- Adjunct Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, West Virginia University
1990 Jemison Professor of Humanities, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Spring Quarter)
1969-72 Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Speech Communication, Illinois State University 1966-69 Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
1963-66 Instructor, Pennsylvania State University
1961-63 Instructor and Director of Debate and Forensics, College of William and Mary (now Old Dominion University)
1960-61 Instructor and Assistant Debate Coach, University of Hawaii
1957-60 High School Speech and English Teacher, Director of Inter-scholastic Debate and Forensics, Scotland and Watertown, South Dakota