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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When Bentley debuted its Master’s in Human Factors in Information Design (MSHFID) program in 1999, it became the first business school to offer a graduate course in the then-emerging discipline of User Experience (UX) — a fascinating field that incorporates…