Dr. Bacdayan joined Northwestern State University in 1973 after obtaining his doctorate in Economics from Utah State University. His other degrees are from Michigan State University and the University of the Philippines. For his research in the economics of the learning process, he received Northwestern State University’s Mildred Bailey Outstanding Research Award in 1991 and the Southwestern Society of Economists’ Irwin Distinguished Paper Award in 1991 and 1996. He has published in the Southwestern Economic Review, The International Journal of Business Disciplines, the National Finance Journal and the Economics of Education Review. He is a refereed journal reviewer, a forensic economics consultant and a member of the American Economic Association and the Southwestern Society of Economists.

Dr. Bacdayan plans to use the money in his endowed professorship:

• To fund the free distribution to his classes of drafts from an economics principles text he is now writing.
• To fund travel and supplies needed to implement his research program in the economics of the learning process, economics of insurance and the economic development of indigenous societies.