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Dr. Don Diffine is currently
Professor of Economics at
Harding
University
in
Searcy, Arkansas, and
Director of the Belden
Center for Private Enterprise
Education. Senior Research
Associate of Harding's
American Studies Institute,
Dr. Diffine is listed in the
Heritage Foundation's Guide
to Public Policy Experts. He
has six books and 20 articles and monographs in
print. A member of the International Platform
Association and also an economic humorist, he is a
frequent speaker for conventions, management clubs,
stockholders' meetings, trade associations, and
chambers of commerce.
The recipient of the $7,500 Freedoms Foundation
Principle Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise
Education, Dr. Diffine has received 16 additional Free–
doms Foundation awards in the categories of Non–
profit Publications, Economic Education, Public
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Affairs-Advertising, Public Address, and Published
Works. He is the faculty winner of a $1,000 First
Place prize in a national essay contest judged by
Nobel Economist Milton Friedman.
In 1995, he received the "Champion of Enterprise"
award and became the first inductee into the National
Students In Free Enterprise Hall of Fame in Kansas
City . The First Annual Distinguished Scholar Award
was also presented in 1988 to Dr. Diffine in Cleveland,
Ohio, by the Association
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Private Enterprise
Education. Dr. Diffine has provided Congressional
testimony on business problems, economic impact
statements, and inflation-recession dilemmas.
Dr. Diffine is married to the former Dion Hillman of
Kailua, Hawaii. Dion is a math teacher in the Searcy
public schools. The Diffines have two children: David,
25, who is a fourth year medical student; and Danielle,
23, who is an accountant.