In 1959, Gwaltney left Johns Hopkins Magazine to become the first full-time employee of the newly created "Editorial Projects for Education" (EPE, later renamed "Editorial Projects in Education") starting in an office in his apartment in Baltimore and later moving to an office near the Johns Hopkins campus.[8] He realized that higher education would benefit from a news publication.[6] He and other board members of EPE met to plan a new publication which would be called "The Chronicle of Higher Education".[6]