Service

• Dr. Dao has served as advisor to the Educational Affairs Committee of the Student Society for Economics, also known as the Economics Club, at Eastern Illinois University. Within the Economics Department, he is a member of the Graduate Assistant Selection Committee, the Application Screening Committee, and the Assessment and Review of the Major Committees.
• He is currently chair of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee and has served as Library Coordinator for the department since Fall of 1990.
• At the college level, Dr. Dao has been research advocate for the social sciences and in that capacity has been partially responsible for grant and fellowship award opportunities which are monthly published in the College of Sciences GRANTLINE.
• At the University level, he served on the Council on Faculty Research from 1989 to 1993. He served another term on this Council beginning in the Fall of 1996. From Fall of 1997 through Spring of 1999, he was Chair of this Council. He has also been serving as a reader/scorer for the Writing Competency Examination.

  While on the Council on Graduate Studies from 1990 to 1996, he has been chair of the Student Appeals Committee. He has represented the Council at the Committee on Academic Computing and the University Academic Assessment Committee. He has also served as Vice-Chair of the Council.

  In fall of 2001 he served as a member of the Search Advisory Committee for Dean of the College of Sciences.

• He served on the Dean of College of Sciences Search Committee, 2001-2002. He is also a member of the Honorary Degree Committe, the Admission Appeal Review Committee, and the Faculty Senate.