He joined Millersville in August 2014, after his position as professor of music at another Pennsylvania university was eliminated. He claims that a number of faculty members at Millersville were not pleased about the prospect of bringing on an older faculty member from another institution and that they and the University have harassed him and discriminated against him because of his age. He also claims that they retaliated against him for critical comments he has made about the University and for alerting the University to gender-based harassment that was occurring in one of his classes.