[2] After his military service ended, Rodis enrolled at Harvard University, where he joined many fellow veterans on the Crimson football team.
[2] Here he oversaw three programs - one which sent top American athletes on tours of foreign countries, a second that brought foreign coaches and athletes to study in the United States, and a third that sent American coaches to work overseas - that each had a budget of close to $1 million.
[10] Rodis was also tasked by United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, a former teammate of his at Harvard, to work on resolving the dispute between the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Amateur Athletic Union over control of amateur sports in the country.
[11] The involvement of the Kennedy administration and its chief mediator, General Douglas MacArthur, helped to broker a deal in time for the 1964 Summer Olympics.
[13] He was responsible for hiring a number of successful coaches, including Bob Brannum (basketball), Tom O'Connell (baseball), Mike Coven (men’s soccer), Denise Dallamora (women’s soccer), Bill Shipman (fencing), and Pete Varney (baseball) and under his leadership, Brandeis made 29 NCAA tournament appearances and won NCAA Division III national championships in men's soccer (1976) and men's cross country (1983).