Bentley University News

We know the millennial generation is the most racially diverse in American history, but the question is: Do they know it?

Much has been made about their diversity being key to the liberal attitudes characteristic of this younger generation. Politicians have surveyed and courted the non-white youth vote as if it’s a defined political bloc. Millennials’ higher tolerance of other races and groups has been praised as a conscious progressive stance.

Unique. Interesting. Engaging. Outside the box. Those are the words being used by Bentley University students to describe new six-credit “fusion” courses that make unlikely connections between business and the arts and sciences.

As the U.S. Congress embarks on a first-of-its-kind initiative to help accelerate the pace of medical cures in America, Bentley professor Fred Ledley joined a panel of experts who testified at a congressional hearing in Washington, DC, on incentives for pharmaceutical and device development.

Bentley professor Gesa Kirsch wins book award, calls for broader perspective of feminist rhetoric as a global enterprise

Multidisciplinary faculty from top institutions will gather at Bentley University’s Humanities Research Seminar to confront glitches in the planning process.

This spring Bentley’s Dresses to Dreams student organization hosted their annual on campus event for almost one hundred high school girls from the Greater Boston Area.

Congratulations to Bentley's 2014 graduates! The commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 17th were a great success and featured moving speeches from President Gloria Larson, Senior Class President Brian Shea, as well as the commencement speakers, Joe Moglia and Linda Zecher. To watch undergraduate and graduate highlights click here

Bentley University celebrated its Commencement weekend on Saturday, May 17, 2014 with undergraduate speaker Joe Moglia, head football coach and chair of athletics at Coastal Carolina University and chairman of the board of TD Ameritrade, and Linda Zecher, CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

All commencement ceremonies will be live streamed on the commencement website.

For most college students, “market demand” is a term reserved for business courses. At Bentley University, it took on a different role, informing two new majors — Professional Sales and Creative Industries — that answer employer demand for skilled professionals. The move marks Bentley as the only major university in the northeast U.S. offering an undergraduate major in the field of professional sales.