Bentley University News

By Allison Doucette ’18   Transitioning from high school to college can be scary but, looking back on my four years at Bentley, I realize I worried about a lot of little things that didn’t matter much in the long run. The biggest fears students have when they come to college are fitting in, making […]

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By Emily Larson ’20   The summer after everyone’s first year of college always starts off with a bang. Rekindling with high-school friends, beginning summer jobs, and readjusting to living back at home is all very exciting and busy. But come mid-July . . . everybody starts getting antsy to head back to school.   […]

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Bentley University opened the doors to a new, state-of-the-art multipurpose arena that will host the university’s NCAA Division I hockey team and prominent university events such as career fairs, high-profile speakers, alumni events and concerts.

Jillian Offermann ’20 wants people to “get pumped” about Bentley, and in Bentley’s new multipurpose arena, she will help do that.

For a long time, Ashley Yantz MSA ’13 always had dreams of becoming a neuroscientist. But at 22, in the midst of a neuroscience doctorate program, she took a bold move to change career paths.

By Naomi Vakharia ’20   “No way! You’re from Cali?” is something I hear almost every time I introduce myself and my home state at Bentley. Moving from sunny Los Angeles to (sometimes) cold New England is the biggest decision I’ve ever made, but one that I absolutely do not regret. I’ve spent one year […]

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A question and answer session with President-Elect Davis-Blake about joining Bentley, her initial impressions of the university, and her background as the leader of large public business schools.

President-Elect Davis-Blake talks about growing up in an academic family and her belief in the power of education to change lives.

Alison Davis-Blake, Ph.D., the former dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, has been appointed the eighth president of Bentley University, one of the top U.S. business schools in the country.

When Gloria Jiang MSA ’14 was an undergraduate, she says she purposely tried to stay away from her parents’ career paths in finance and accounting when she was deciding the major in college. But once she entered the workforce, she quickly realized that accounting was “the business language spoken everywhere in the world.” And she wanted to learn it.