[3] He was the seventh president of Ripon College from 1943 to 1954[2] and the third provost of the Santa Barbara College of the University of California (now the University of California, Santa Barbara) for a short period in 1955.
[3] Kuebler resigned from the position of provost after only nine months, when he was accused of propositioning a male detective he had just met while visiting New York City to recruit faculty members.
[4][5] He was arrested by the New York City Police Department on suspicion of assault and loitering in a public place to solicit "a crime against nature".
[4][5][6] In the conservative 1950s, a mere accusation of homosexuality "regardless of ... veracity or outcome" was often fatal to an academic career.
[7] Future UC President Clark Kerr (then serving as chancellor at Berkeley) avoided mentioning Kuebler by name in his memoirs and instead referred to a provost who "quickly disappeared under less than glorious circumstances".