During Hubbard's tenure the school avoided an announced closing and created the first electronic campus in the United States.
[1][2] [3][4] Before retiring in 2009 a program was started to replace students' printed textbooks with the electronic books or ebooks.
[5] In 1984 he moved to Northwest where he launched his plan for a computer in every room to make the claim to be the first electronic public university campus in the United States by the time it was rolled out in 1987.
[11] The most visible differentiation was Hubbard's hiring of Mel Tjeerdsma in 1994 as head football coach for the Northwest Missouri Bearcats.
[12] In 2010 he was named interim president of St. Luke's College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Missouri.