Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Marie Hardin, an associate professor and associate dean for graduate studies and research in the College of Communications at Penn State, has been selected as the new director of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication. (more)
Friday, February 05, 2010
The geographic location of a corporation's headquarters affects its approach to social responsibility, according to research supported by the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State. Born out of the study is a Web site with a searchable database about companies' corporate social responsibility initiatives. The site catalogs more than 600 corporate social responsibility programs for the 468 global companies listed. (more)
Thursday, August 13, 2009
For years, journalists and others have questioned the ethics of public relations practitioners and firms. People in PR, however, appear to be getting a bad rap. That's what a new study funded by the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State University has found. (more)
Monday, August 10, 2009
From 2003 to 2007 the reputation of corporate America remained steady. It was bad, but steady. Seven citizens in 10 called corporations either "not good" or "terrible." Then things got worse. A 2008 Harris Interactive survey of 20,000 Americans found that eight in 10 gave failing grades to corporations.
"That's one reason why there has rarely been a more important time to study integrity issues in corporate communications," said John Nichols, director of the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication in the College of Communications at Penn State.
The Page Center, founded in 2004, has awarded $287,000 in grants to researchers to examine integrity in communication. Scholars have looked at codes of ethics and mission statements, corporate behavior, crisis communications, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics curriculum. (more)
Monday, December 15, 2008
A $300,000 gift from the Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust pushed the Trust's overall support of the Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication, housed in Penn State's College of Communications, to $1 million. Total contributions to the Page Center now top $3 million. About $2.5 million of the total has been placed in a permanent endowment, the proceeds of which will support in perpetuity the Center's programs. (more)
