Bentley University News

For the Bentley community, 2024 proved a banner year for celebrating milestones and making memories.  We cheered on our women’s volleyball team as they made history, becoming the first-ever member of the Northeast-10 conference to advance to the NCAA…

When Harry C. Bentley founded his School of Accounting in Boston in 1917, he committed to serving all students, regardless of their socioeconomic status. After all, as the first member of his own family to earn a university degree, Bentley understood firsthand…

For the second year in a row, Bentley University has won the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for its outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. The national honor was given by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and…

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,…