[3] In 1918 he received his MA from the University of Chicago, and was named Dean at Mount Morris College.
Brumbaugh taught at the University of Chicago beginning in 1926, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1929 with a dissertation on the authority of school boards as defined by the courts.
In 1941, Robert Maynard Hutchins appointed Brumbaugh Dean of Students at the College of the University of Chicago.
Brumbaugh retired from the university in 1944 but remained active in professional associations.
[4] In 1955, Brumbaugh left Shimer to take a staff position with the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, Georgia.