In 1922, two years after his election as principal of BSNS, Fisher started a three-year course for teachers of junior high school age students. This was the school's first step towards college status. In 1923 he resigned from Bloomsburg and became president of the Western Washington State Teachers College at Bellingham. He left there after sixteen years when a dispute over his defense of academic freedom developed. Fisher later worked as a professor of education administration at New York University, and in 1942 became the Dean of Huron College in South Dakota. In the last years of World War II Fisher returned to Washington to work as a materials priority director for the state.  Charles H. Fisher died on December 8, 1965 at the age of 84 in a suburb of Seattle, Washington.  In 1968 Western Washington honored Dr. Fisher by dedicating the Fisher Fountain to his memory.