University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications (UFJCJ) Public Relations Professor Mary Ann Ferguson and doctoral student Baobao Song, have been awarded an Arthur W. Page Center 2016-17 Joint Faculty-Practitioner Grant for $10,000.

Ferguson and Song will serve as co-principle investigators on the grant which is titled, “Employee Prosocial Engagement in CSR through Empowerment in Decision-Making.”

Sarab Kochhar, director of research for the Institute for Public Relations will serve as co-principle investigator practitioner.  Weiting Tao, assistant professor at the School of Communication at the University of Miami and a graduate of UFCJC’s doctoral program, is the principle investigator.

This is the fifth Page Center grant-funded corporate social responsibility (CSR) research project  for which Ferguson has been the PI or Co-Pi.

The Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication is a research center at the Penn State College of Communications dedicated to the study and advancement of ethics and responsibility in corporate communication and other forms of public communication.

Posted: April 19, 2016
Category: College News, Research News
Tagged as: Arthur W. Page Center, Boaboa Song, Mary Ann Ferguson, Sarab Kochhar