Bentley University News

For the fifth straight year, Bentley University’s student-athletes have the highest graduation rate in the nation at 99 percent, according to the latest NCAA Division II Academic Success Rate report. The Academic Success Rate represents the percentage of…

Over the course of nearly 40 years at Bentley, Assistant Professor David Missirian has taught countless students the best practices surrounding law and taxation. But for the past 15 years, Missirian has done his fair share of teaching outside of the classroom,…

This fall Bentley University is joining some of the world’s biggest accounting firms in launching initiatives that will help create a more inclusive industry for underrepresented groups. The newly launched Master’s in Accounting Fellowship will provide full…

Tom Yuen ’05, MST ’05, grew up in his parents’ restaurant but knew he wasn’t going to grow old there.  “I didn’t want to cook,” he remembers, “and they didn’t let me cook.” Yuen is the oldest son of Chinese immigrants who came to the United…

Pat Flynn will never forget the first time she interviewed for a corporate board position.  It was the late 1990s, and the Economics professor — who was also serving as dean of Bentley’s McCallum Graduate School of Business — was meeting the president of…

(On Monday, members of the community gathered for the annual Trans Pride flag raising to start Transgender Awareness Week. Matt Banks, assistant director in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, gave the welcoming remarks.) Welcome, everyone. I am excited to…

Falcon student-athlete Rona Mejiritski ’22 found commonalities between swimming and financial analysis — then turned it into a career path at Nike.  “I love how the detailed pieces of financial analysis come together at…

Elaine Dickson MBA ’98 says she always wanted to be a journalist. That didn’t happen (yet), but she is putting her investigative skills to work as certified fraud examiner and CEO of her company, Mavenly Consultants.  “Working in…

In 1921, John W. Cromwell, Jr. became America’s first Black certified public accountant. Despite graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1906 with advanced degrees in mathematics and astronomy, Cromwell was forced to wait 15 years before he was…