The next year until he was hired as both advertising director and editor of Gouverneur Tribune Press, a country weekly in New York.
He became assistant publisher of two upstate New York daily papers: the Ogdensburg Journal(1938–1939) and the Rochester Times-Union (1940–1941).
From 1941–1943, he was the National Advertising Manager of another upstate New York daily paper, the Albany Knickerbocker News.
The general classroom building, Ben M. Cherrington Hall (1966) and a new Speech and Hearing Center were built as well.
Some of the awards Maurice B. Mitchell received were: the George Washington Medal, Freedoms Foundation, in 1969.
The Malcolm Glenn Wyer Award, Adult Education Council, Metropolitan Denver, in 1975.