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Bentley Named a Top University for Long-Term Return on Investment

February 18, 2022
A Bentley education delivers among the highest return on investment in the country, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.  The report ranks Bentley No. 8 among colleges and universities offering the…

Badavas Center sponsors ‘Academic Innovation for the Public Good’ virtual book series

February 16, 2022
“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it,” says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund and recipient of the 2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom…


 

Bentley Collaborates with KPMG to Transform Accounting with More Analytics

February 14, 2022
The advent of big data, analytics, blockchain and machine learning is creating exciting changes in the field of accounting — and requiring new skills. Bentley University is working with Big Four accounting firm KPMG to develop curriculum for a new Master’s in…

Everyone’s talking about being ‘lonely.’ But what does that really mean?

February 11, 2022
Philosophy professor organizes conference to help tackle the 'loneliness epidemic' The COVID-19 pandemic is the crux of one of the greatest public health crises of our time, with the physical and mental isolation described as a “loneliness epidemic.” But for…

Mike Hill ’97 To Succeed Bob DeFelice as Baseball Coach

February 9, 2022
With the start of his 54th season days away, Bentley University baseball Coach Bob DeFelice announced today that this will be his final spring leading the Falcons. Vaughn Williams, who followed DeFelice as Bentley’s director of Athletics in September 2020,…

Nearly 300 Attend MLK Jr. Celebration

February 9, 2022
Participants in this year's MLK Celebration (pictured above) included Isaura Beltre ’99, MSIAM ’02, Hassan Hassan ’22, Mukosolu Obukwelu ’22, Arafat Sheikh Rasheed ’22, Samantha Applebaum ‘22, Ysanel Luciano ’22, Eval Silvera ’99 and Farrah Jazeh MBA ’21…

No. 1 Fan

February 7, 2022
Whenever Lynn Wolf ’88, MBA ’00 has reached a crossroads in life, she’s always looked to Bentley. She earned a bachelor's in Accounting here. After receiving her CPA credential and starting a career, she got her MBA here. And, in 2018, when Bentley put out a…

It's Not All Numbers for Nick Plate ’17

January 10, 2022
Finance and Psychology may seem an unlikely major/minor combination, but for Nick Plate ’17, that mix of business and social science created the foundation for his career at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management. Following internships at Merrill Lynch and graduation…

CARES Act

December 23, 2021
As of November 11, 2021, Bentley University has distributed all HEERF funding. Please email CARES@bentley.edu if you have any questions. 2022 Funding The Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund III (HEERF III) is authorized by the American Rescue Plan (ARP), Public Law 117-2, signed into law on March 11, 2021, providing $36 billion in support to… 2021 Funding Section 314(1)(a) of the Coronavirus, Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (CRRSAA), enacted on Dec. 27, 2020, allows higher education institutions to use certain funds… 2020 Funding On March 27, 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to ease the financial strain across the country created by COVID-19. A portion of that economic…

Beyond Binary

December 23, 2021
Nonbinary. Genderfluid. Genderqueer.   The terms are relatively new, but the reality they describe — individuals whose gender identities are neither strictly male nor female — has been celebrated for centuries. Hindu texts dating back to 400 B.C. are…