during the 1960s and 1970s, bánáthy was a visiting professor at the university of california, berkeley, and as he continued teaching at san jose state university. in 1969, he left the renamed defense language institute and became a program director, and later senior research director and associate laboratory director, at the far west laboratory for research and development (now wested) in berkeley (later moved to san francisco). he "directed over fifty research and development programs, designed many curriculum projects and several large scale complex systems, including the design and implementation of a ph.d. program in educational research and development for uc berkeley".