The late Emeritus Professor John Jackson, who taught Economics in the (then) Faculty of Economics and Commerce from the 1970's and was appointed Dean of the Faculty in 1986, bequeathed $100,000 to The University of Western Australia ('the University') to establish the Emeritus Professor John Jackson Undergraduate Scholarship in Business Fund to provide a scholarship to assist disadvantaged students at the University to undertake an undergraduate degree course leading to the Bachelor of Commerce degree.