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Bentley Fair Trade Fair Advocates for Ethical Business Models

October 9, 2022
The LaCava Tent this week doubled as an outdoor market, with vendors greeting customers — students, faculty and staff — who came to sample a variety of goods, including crafts, clothing, jewelry, personal care products, ice cream, chocolate, coffee, tea and…

Promoting First-Gen Career Success

October 6, 2022
For years, a cornerstone of Bentley’s student support services has been the Pulsifer Career Development Center, which regularly ranks among the top five best career services offices in the country by Princeton Review. Each semester, the dedicated center…

Economic Empowerment

September 29, 2022
When Banmai Huynh ’24 read an email about a Women in Finance Fellowship at Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA), she thought it “sounded perfect” — but not only because it was for a sophomore woman studying finance. Its affiliation with the…

Be A Force Campaign Reaches $90M with Generous Gifts Toward $100M Goal

September 29, 2022
Be a Force: The Campaign for Bentley University reached a milestone this month, raising $90 million toward its campaign goal of $100 million. The last six months have given the university a solid push toward the finish line, with new Great Benefactors joining…

Bentley Football Celebrates 50 Years

September 29, 2022
More than 250 former football players returned to the field on Saturday, September 10 to see Bentley beat Pace 41-20 in the home opener and to celebrate 50 years of football. To mark the milestone, Bentley has launched a campaign to officially dedicate Peter…

Ambassador of Bahrain Speaks with Students on the Relationship Between Business and Government

September 20, 2022
Shaikh Abdullah bin Rashid Al Khalifa ’01, MBA ’03, ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain, visited Bentley on Sept. 19 to discuss how Bahrain is working with countries to strengthen economic and geopolitical ties and to speak with students, faculty and staff on…

Designing for a Difference

September 7, 2022
When Ankita Dutta MSHFID ’22 first walked down the hallways of Boston City Hall, she felt empowered about the public service work she was about to begin as a summer design intern in the Mayor’s Office of Language and Communication Access. That included…

Bentley Welcomes Historic Number of First-Generation Students

September 1, 2022
It may have looked like a typical college move-in week — with carloads of boxes, spirited welcome cheers and high-fives from new friends and emotional good-byes with family — but the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year marked historic milestones for…

‘We welcome, celebrate and affirm a broad and inclusive community’

September 1, 2022
Good afternoon! It is my great privilege to welcome members of the Class of 2026, as well as 87 upperclassmen transfer students, to Bentley University.   This is the start of my second year as president at this university and my wife, Phyllis, and I are…

How Sexism Sustains the Gender Pay Gap

August 25, 2022
In 1963 the U.S. established the Equal Pay Act, becoming one of the first countries to prohibit gender-based wage discrimination. At the time, American women earned an average of 61 cents to every dollar earned by men. Nearly 60 years later, that gap has…