Marlene Neill, an associate professor at Baylor University, has a long history with the Page Center. She was first funded as a scholar in 2015 and has since led or been part of five Page Center-funded projects, including a stint as a research fellow. This past summer, Neill was named a senior research fellow, and she is leading… More
Page Center board member Gary Sheffer is the Sandra A. Frazier professor of public relations at Boston University. As a professor, he teaches his students to compare the actions of enterprises to their mission or values. Prior to BU, Sheffer spent 13 years as the chief communications officer at General Electric. He… More
Page Center advisory board member Charlene Wheeless has been a trail-blazing force in public relations for decades. But when she returned to the c-suite in 2019 after a long bout with cancer, she didn’t know if she could continue blazing trails.
After stepping down as Bechtel Corporation’s principal vice president of corporate affairs, she found a way to… More
By Holly Overton, associate professor at the University of South Carolina
Is corporate social advocacy (CSA) the new corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Do stakeholder expectations vary for companies’ CSR vs. CSA efforts and how they should communicate about them? Do company motives matter any more or less for CSR or CSA?
Dick Martin is the former executive vice president of public relations at AT&T. In 2017, he was part of the inaugural class of Larry Foster Award honorees. In 2019, he returned to the Page Center Awards to posthumously honor his colleague, friend and predecessor at AT&T Marilyn Laurie. Laurie was a public relations pioneer who has been… More
It is difficult to identify authenticity in a time when fake news and mistrust make headlines. Diana Sisson, an assistant professor of public relations at Auburn University, is bridging the gap between how practitioners and researchers define authenticity.
In 2017, Sisson’s proposal on digital media research was selected by the Page… More