Bentley University News

Bentley recently completed its first waste minimization plan. The plan is a key part of Bentley’s Sustainability Climate Action Plan that aims to reduce the total volume of waste generated by the university and enhance sustainable purchasing and contracting…

Bentley was recognized by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education as a 2024 Top Performer in innovative and impactful sustainability initiatives. Featured in the 2024 Sustainable Campus Index — which highlights the most…

Bentley University has partnered with the City of Waltham to launch the Bentley Social Innovation Incubator, an accelerator program for small business owners and entrepreneurs in the Greater Waltham community who seek to leverage the power of business to…

In 1969, a congressional report concluded that “our nation’s policies for educating American Indians are a national tragedy ... the ‘first American’ has become the ‘last American’ in terms of an opportunity for employment, education, a decent income and the…

Bentley is on track to be the first business university in the country to become a certified Fair Trade University. The news comes after students from the Bentley Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center (BSLCE) made a pitch for Bentley to pursue the…

It was a full house in Koumantzelis Auditorium as Bentley students, faculty and staff gathered to hear from Brad Stevens, president of basketball operations at the Boston Celtics, in his sit-down conversation with Bentley President E. LaBrent Chrite. Stevens,…

Women’s golf became an official varsity sport at Bentley and just finished its first season in fall 2024. The university now has an equal number (11) of men’s and women’s varsity sports. Co-captain Kaitlyn McCarthy ’25, who worked behind the scenes to advocate…

LGBTQ+ people are underrepresented in U.S. business schools and in business careers, but a new partnership between Bentley University and GLSEN — a national nonprofit committed to inclusive education in schools — plans to change that.  The new…

In any week up to 400 students show up for Bentley Investment Group (BIG) pitch meetings. One of the largest student organizations on campus, the group is responsible for managing a portion of the university’s endowment. The fund they manage originated in…

Kathi Kaiser, PhD ’27 has more than two decades of expertise in qualitative research and user experience (UX) design. In 2001 she founded Centralis, a UX research and design consultancy serving Fortune 100 corporations, government agencies, start-ups and…