• Professor (crystallography) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1951-89
• Roland D. Irving Distinguished Professor, 1976-89
• President, The Clay Minerals Society of America, 1971-72
• President, The Mineralogical Society of America, 1973-74
• President, Association Internationale pour L'Etude des Argiles, 1975-78
• Distinguished Member, The Clay Minerals Society, 1975
• Roebling Medal for Distinguished Research, the Mineralogical Society of America, 1990
• Neil Miner Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers, 1990
• Honorary Member, Mineralogical Society of Great Britian and Ireland, 1992
• L'Association Internationale pour L'Etude des Argiles Medal, 1993

Read the faculty memorial resolution for Professor Bailey, published in 1994.