Ming Li Position: School Director/Professor

School of Recreation and Sport Sciences
School Director/Professor
Sports Administration

Office: Grover Center E160A
Phone: (740) 593-4656
Email: mingli@ohio.edu

Dr. Li is the Director of the School of Recreation and Sport Sciences at Ohio University and an Associate Professor in Sports Administration. Before joining the faculty at Ohio University, he taught at Georgia Southern University for eleven years. During those years, he coordinated both the graduate and undergraduate sport management programs.

Li's teaching and research interests are in financial and economic aspects of sport, and international sport management. He received his bachelor's degree in education from Guangzhou Institute of Physical Culture (PRC), his master's degree in education from Hangzhou University (PRC), and his Doctor of Education from the University of Kansas in Sport Administration. His professional affiliations include the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM), and the International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance (ICHPER.SD). He has held offices as (a) Member-at-Large on the Executive Council of NASSM, (b) Chair of the Sport Management Council of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), and (c) Director of the Sport Management & Administration Commission of ICHPER.SD. Li was the recipient of the 1999 Taylor Dodson Award given by the Southern District American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. The award is presented annually to a young professional who has demonstrated strong leadership qualities in the field of health, physical education and dance.

Li has actively participated in the NASPE-NASSM Sport Management Program Review process and in 2001 he finished his three-year term serving on the Sport Management Program Review Council (SMPRC). He also has memberships on the editorial boards of three professional journals: (a) Journal of Sport Management, (b) International Sports Journal, and (c) International Journal of Sport Management. In 1996, he worked for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as an Olympic Envoy. The Envoy appointment was awarded as a result of Li's leadership ability, decision making and communication skills, and his ability to work in a multi-cultural environment. For the contribution he made to his profession, Georgia Southern University and the community, he was given the 2000-2001 Award for Excellence in Service by Georgia Southern University.

Li has published more than 20 articles in refereed journals, two books (i.e., Economics of Sport and Badminton Everyone), and three book chapters, and made numerous refereed presentations at state, national and international conferences.

Examples of Scholarly/Creative/Professional Activity
*Name order does not necessarily reflect order of authorship

Books Authored or Edited
Economics of Sport *With: S. Hofacre, D. mahony Morgantown, WV, Fitness Information Technology, Inc. 2001

Book Chapters and Invited Contributions to Text Books Managing Sport Organizations In J.B. Parks, B.R. & Quarterman, J (2nd ed) Contemporary Sport Management, Champaign, IL 2003

Publications
Internationalization of sport management curricula in the United States: a national survey
*With: M. Kanters, R. Ammon
International Sports Journal, 6. 2002

Outsourcing Sport Marketing Operations by NCAA Division I Athletic Programs: An Exploratory Study
*With: W. Burden
Sport Marketing Quarterly, 11. 2002

Regulation of elite sports in the United States
International Sports jounal, 4. 2000

Presentations
Olympic Games in Beijing and Development of Sport in Asia
2006
Asian Association for Sport Management Annual Conference, Tokyo, , JP

Government and the sport industry in the United States
2002
International Conference of Sociological Sciences in Sport, hangzhou, China

Differentiation of NCAA Division I athletic departments in outsourcing of sport marketing operations: A discriminant analysis of finacial-related institutional variables
*With: W. Burden
2002
2002 Annual Conference of the North American Society of Sport Management, Canada

Building a regional economic development alliance among municipal sport agencies
*With: H. Eisenhart
2001 2001 Annual Conference of the Sport Management Association of Austrailia an dNew Aealand, Melbourne

Building a strategic alliance among member institutions within an intercollegiate athletic conference
*With: S. Thompson, D. Wagner
2001
3rd Annual Flirida State University Sport management conference, Tallahassee

Building a strategic alliance between collegiate athletic organizations and municipal sports development agencies
*With: W. Burden
2001
International Conference on Sport and Entertainment Business, Columbia, SC

Enhancing racial/ethical diversity in NASSM: a roundtable discussion, Organizational diversity and the North American Society for Sport Management
*With: K. L. Armstrong, B. Crow, E.N. Jackson, T. Stratta
2001
2000 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport Management, Virginia Beach

Outsourcing sport marketing operations by NCAA Division I athletic programs: An exploratory study
*With: W. Burden
2001
2001 Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport Management, Virginia Beach

How to become a published journal author--a roundtable discussion
2001
AAPHERD 2001 Annual Convention, Cincinnati

An overview of the sport industry in the United States: A new perspective
*With: S. Hofacre, D. Mahony
2000
North American Society for Sport Management, Colorado