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Valente Center

Faculty Involvement

Opportunities for Faculty Involvement

  • Visiting Scholars: Faculty have the opportunity to recommend and host a visiting scholar to spend time at Bentley for either a short-term or long-term time in residence. These scholars are typically distinguished leaders in their fields and participate in the intellectual life of campus by offering workshops, lectures, seminars and guest lectures in classes. The Valente Center regularly sponsors or co-sponsor visitors for talks, guest lectures, workshops, seminars, class visits, and more. Contact the Valente Center for more information if this sounds of interest.
  • Humanities Research Seminar: The Humanities Research Seminar is an academic yearlong seminar on an interdisciplinary theme, coordinated by a Bentley faculty fellow aiming to cultivate research by bringing together eminent scholars from across the greater Boston area and beyond. Seminars typically involve undergraduate students as for-credit participants, as well as graduate students among various fields.
  • Valente Roundtable: The Valente Roundtable is a semester-long three-credit seminar that brings together 15 highly motivated students and five professors from five different business and arts and sciences departments. The goal of the seminar is to model true academic study by reading and discussing significant books dealing with critical issues and enduring themes. Books are chosen to enrich participants’ understanding of society, business, the arts, politics, and the human condition. Professors and enrolled students are in the room at the same time for lunch over weekly double-block meetings, and all participants take equal responsibility for the conversation.
  • Publish in Fusio, the Bentley Undergraduate Research Journal: Just launched in fall 2016, Fusio is an undergraduate research journal managed by the Honors Program, which highlights capstone papers, as well as other exceptional work by undergraduates whose research combines business and the arts and sciences.

 

NEH-Supported Programs

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) honors Bentley University’s commitment to Arts & Sciences with $395,000 challenge grant to build endowment for new humanities programming. Visiting Fellows and Scholars, the Humanities Research Seminar, and the Undergraduate Fellows Seminar are all made possible through the NEH and matching funds from generous donors. Read more about the NEH grant from this press release.