He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Sport Management at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland.  He holds a Ph.D. in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts, a M.P.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Oregon, and a B.A. in Government from St. Lawrence University.  Dr. Ted Fay also serves as a Senior Research Fellow for the Center for the Study of Sport in Society's Disability Sport Initiative and as a strategic consultant related to the Center's research and academic program initiatives.   Dr. Fay has focused much of his research in the area of policy development and strategic management the perspective of diversity and social justice within sport organizations including youth sports.  

 
He has been an active member of the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM) since 1993 and worked with or for several national governing bodies including the US Ski & Snowboard Association, the US Biathlon Association, USA Hockey, and US Team Handball Federation over the span of 25 years as either a national team coach, program director, marketing and strategic consultant, or as an executive director of a series of World Championship events in skiing and in ice hockey.  He was the Executive Director of the 1996 IIHF World Junior Ice Hockey Championships held at locations throughout Massachusetts.

 
Prior to coming to SUNY Cortland and Sport in Society in 1999, Fay was Director of the Sport Management program at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH and taught in the undergraduate and graduate sport management program at the University of Massachusetts from 1992 - 1995.  Dr. Fay has an extensive background in international sport and the Olympic/Paralympic Movement.  Fay has had a varied career as an educator, activist and advocate involved in a number of human rights initiatives, environmental policy and protection campaigns and community organizing efforts nationally and internationally.