"The prospect of advancement is perhaps more important to the employees than rates of pay or pension or any other conditions of work."

—Arthur W. Page

"No business has a right to live in a democracy if it bases that right on the practice of corrupting the press."

—Arthur W. Page

"...all business in a democratic society begins with public permission and exists by public approval."

—Arthur W. Page

"Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well."

—Arthur W. Page

"We see the Page Center as a lighthouse for those students and practitioners interested in demonstrating and articulating the highest standards of communication and ethical behavior in business, as well as other institutions."

—Lawrence G. Foster

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The Page Center will award grants to support scholars and professionals making important contributions to knowledge, practice or public understanding of ethics and resposibility in public communication or other principles of Arthur W. Page.

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Jack Koten – Jack Koten - Jack Koten, in a 2004 Page Society interview, discusses Arthur Page, his career, and his influence on the Bell System. Koten talks about how the Society formed the Page Principles, based on the speeches and essays written by Arthur Page.

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Welcome to the Arthur W. Page Center

The Arthur W. Page Center at the Penn State College of Communications...

is a research center dedicated to the study and advancement of ethics and responsibility in corporate communication and other forms of public communication.
was founded through a leadership gift from Lawrence G. Foster, a distinguished Penn State alumnus and retired corporate vice president for public relations at Johnson & Johnson.
announces its seventh Page/Johnson Legacy Scholar competition through which it will award up to $75,000 in grants to support scholars and professionals making important contributions to knowledge, practice, or public understanding of ethics and responsibility in public communication or other principles of Arthur W. Page.
and cooperates with the Arthur W. Page Society, the nation’s leading professional organization for senior public relations executives, but functions as a separate entity.