History of TIDES reports and their relationship with online abuse
Professor Adrien Bouchet
Recording Available Soon
The DeVos Sport Business Management program at University of Central Florida has been preparing TIDES (The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport) reports since 2001 although the reports date back to 1988. The TIDES reports examine the race and gender makeup of players, coaches and front office staff in America’s professional and amateur sport leagues including the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA, WNBA, and the NCAA (governing body of college athletics in the U.S.)
Professor Adrien Bouchet will speak about the history of the TIDES reports and its relationship with online abuse and sport including specific points in time over the last thirty years that have been influential in attracting attention to these issues.
The TIDES report also includes detailed information regarding league-wide initiatives to combat online abuse and racism.
Presenter Biography
Adrien Bouchet is the Richard & Helen DeVos Foundation Endowed Chair and Eminent Scholar of the DeVos Sport Business Management Programme and Director of The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES), which releases the widely publicized Racial and Gender Report Cards for professional, collegiate, and amateur sports each year. Bouchet came to UCF from the University of Tulsa where he spent 12 years as the Warren Clinic Endowed Professor, Sport Business. He also served as the Department Chair, Management & Marketing, Associate Dean and Director. Operations & Graduate Programmes; and Senior Associate Dean, Academics. From 2019 – 2022, he served as the Faculty Athletic Representative (FAR) for the university.
He is a Fulbright Fellow (Portugal) and a Research Fellow, North American Society for Sport Management. In 2017, he served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. In 2015, he received the MAYO Excellence in Research award from the University of Tulsa. That year, he was awarded the Best Paper Award, Strategy track at the Southern Management Association. He and a co-author were awarded a Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics grant to study the escalation in spending in NCAA athletics. Their conference paper was the basis of an article on ESPN.com
He has published articles in OMEGA: Journal of Management Science, Journal of Sport Management, Sport Management Review, Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Journal of Service Marketing, Managerial Finance, Corporate Governance, and Journal of Consumer Behaviour.
Prior to entering academia, he served as Manager, Marketing Partnerships for the Miami Dolphins (NFL), Senior Manager, Marketing Partnerships for the Miami Marlins (Major League Baseball); Senior Director, Team, League, & Venue Services for SFX/Clear Channel Entertainment (now LiveNation), and Associate General Manager, ISP/Learfield College Sports.
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