Inaugural Robert S. Eckley International Lecture is Monday

The inaugural Robert S. Eckley International Lecture at Bradley University will be given on Monday, March 30 at 7 p.m. in Bradley Hall room 91. 

The featured speaker is Dr. William J. Polley, associate professor of economics at Western Illinois University. His lecture is titled "Stimulus or Austerity: The Dilemma of Sovereign Debt Crises." The lecture is presented by the Foster College of Business and the Department of Economics.

Polley joined the faculty of the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences at Western Illinois University in 2005. He teaches macroeconomics at the principles, intermediate, and graduate levels. He also has taught courses in the economics of sports, American economic history, managerial economics, money and banking, and international economics. Polley received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Iowa in 1999 and taught at Bradley University as an Assistant Professor of Economics from 1999 to 2005. His primary research interests are in macroeconomics and international economics.

Dr. Robert S. Eckley was a 1942 Bradley University business management graduate who went on to become the president of Illinois Wesleyan University. Eckley received the Phi Kappa Phi Alumni Award from Bradley in 1966 and the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1972. This is an established endowment for the Department of Economics, that will allow the department to bring to campus lecturers on international economics.