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President Davis-Blake's 2019 Convocation Address

August 21, 2019

Fitness: Making it Personal

August 19, 2019
Personal fitness is big business.  The U.S. health club industry serves more than 71.5 million consumers, and about one in five Americans belong to at least one health club or studio, according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub…

From the President

August 19, 2019
How quickly 12 months can go by. My first year as the university’s eighth president has affirmed exactly what I thought when I arrived on campus last summer: Bentley is quite a special place.  The 2018-2019 academic year has come to an end, but it will…

Conference Call

August 19, 2019
“The Morocco conference is on!” Hannah Rauch ’19 was astounded when the email arrived from her Honors Program adviser: She would be the sole undergraduate student, among doctoral candidates and faculty members worldwide, to present at the International…

Meet the Interim Provost

August 19, 2019
Donna Maria Blancero is on a mission to show that successful people represent all types of identities, including race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity.  Your commitment to inclusion has very personal roots. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a…

Falcon Files

August 19, 2019
Bentley’s first Commencement, for 18 graduates, took place on June 29, 1920. The site was Whitney Hall, in the famous Pierce Building at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner. As class sizes grew, ceremonies moved to the Boston Opera House on Huntington Ave. (pictured…

Inside Job

August 19, 2019
Art and activism blend perfectly for Maria Rivero ’09. The Venezuela-born alumna couples her expertise in marketing with a keen social conscience. The work is twofold: managing a private collection dedicated to contemporary art and helping emerging artists…

Five Reasons that Failing is Good for You

August 19, 2019
Peter Forkner. Photo by Melody Smith.
“Congratulations on your recent failure” may never be a Hallmark-worthy sentiment. But there are reasons to value — even welcome — the experience. Here, Peter Forkner of Bentley’s Counseling…

Examining Research at Bentley

August 19, 2019
Projects by Faculty and Students have Real-World Impact How do you strengthen the economy in parts of the world where most people have little access to banks? In sub-Saharan Africa, a developing region of…

Float Like a Falcon, Sting Like a ‘B’

August 19, 2019
Bentley was 2-0 at the Haymakers for Hope charity fight night in May. James Arredondo ’04, MBA ’10 and Vanessa (Razney) Baca ’10 pummeled through months of training to reach the ring at the House of Blues Boston — amazing family and friends and raising…