Claim: Joseph Woelfel, who moved to Ohio State University in 1978 to work as a professor, acted as the chair of the Department of Communication in 1982 and became director of research and founded the fellow institute for the Study of Information Science in 1988.
Evidence: Then in 1978 he moved to University at Albany, SUNY as a visiting professor, where he was then hired as an associate professor in 1979.