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Thinking Outside the Pasta Box

June 22, 2020

If you’ve been searching grocery store shelves in vain for specialty pasta like cellentani or orecchiette, Jean-Pierre Comte, P ’21, wants you to know there’s a reason for that. Comte is …

Celebrate Juneteenth: An Essay by Dr. Barbara Paul-Emile

June 19, 2020

Dear Members of the Bentley Community, Today, June 19, 2020, marks 155 years since Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to declare the Civil War had ended and all enslaved people were free. Juneteenth—Freedom Day—was born. Barbara Paul-…

Pride and Progress

June 17, 2020

(Above: University Police Capt. Frank Bourgeois and Residence Director Keriann McDonough with the new Progress Flag. Photos and video by Kevin Maguire.) Members of Bentley PRIDE (People Respecting Individuality and Diversity through Education), the LGBTQ+…

The Ethics of User Experience

June 17, 2020

New technologies have always produced unintended consequences. But user experience (UX) designers and engineers face a number of new ethical challenges today with the rise of technology and our interaction and dependence on it.

UX designers’ primary job is to improve usability and extend productivity. But they also have a responsibility to address the unintended consequences of new technologies, some of them with a clear ethical dimension. Following is a look at some of the principle ethical quandaries that UX designers will run up against and must deal with responsibly.

A Message from the Board Chairman to the Bentley Community

June 15, 2020

Dear Members of the Bentley Community, I am writing to inform you that President Alison Davis-Blake is leaving Bentley University for personal reasons. This is a time of great change in academia and we thank Alison for her service over the past two years.…

A Message from the Cabinet to the Bentley Community

June 15, 2020

A Message from the Cabinet to the Community Dear Bentley Community, This has been a semester, and year, of change for Bentley. But over the past few months, in the face of unprecedented adversity, the members of…

Racial Justice Task Force Launched

June 12, 2020

Provost Donna Maria Blancero announced the creation of a new task force charged with identifying and investigating practices at Bentley University that sustain systemic racism. The Task Force on Racial Justice will recommend specific actions to overturn those…

‘Black Lives Matter on this Campus’

June 11, 2020

Community Gathers Online for Vigil for Black Lives More than 430 members of the community joined a live-streamed “Vigil for Black Lives,” which featured speeches from students, faculty and staff in which they shared…

Message from the Academic Leadership Team on Racial Justice and Black Lives Matter

June 8, 2020

Dear Members of the Bentley Community, As we begin a new week, we write in solidarity as the academic leadership team to affirm the dignity and humanity of our Black students, faculty, and staff. Some of you may have joined the Town Hall on Racial Injustice…

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