Around Campus

It was a full house in Koumantzelis Auditorium as Bentley students, faculty and staff gathered to hear from Brad Stevens, president of basketball operations at the Boston Celtics, in his sit-down conversation with Bentley President E. LaBrent Chrite. Stevens,…

Women’s golf became an official varsity sport at Bentley and just finished its first season in fall 2024. The university now has an equal number (11) of men’s and women’s varsity sports. Co-captain Kaitlyn McCarthy ’25, who worked behind the scenes to advocate…

In any week up to 400 students show up for Bentley Investment Group (BIG) pitch meetings. One of the largest student organizations on campus, the group is responsible for managing a portion of the university’s endowment. The fund they manage originated in…

Kathi Kaiser, PhD ’27 has more than two decades of expertise in qualitative research and user experience (UX) design. In 2001 she founded Centralis, a UX research and design consultancy serving Fortune 100 corporations, government agencies, start-ups and…

When Bentley debuted its Master’s in Human Factors in Information Design (MSHFID) program in 1999, it became the first business school to offer a graduate course in the then-emerging discipline of User Experience (UX) — a fascinating field that incorporates…

Before coming to Bentley from Brooklyn, N.Y., Aliyah Isaacs ’26 hadn’t heard about the Bentley Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Center (BSLCE). Now, she’s part of the nearly 1,000 students who participate in it, and she can’t imagine her college…

Julio Mejia ’27 is knocking on doors in the Lawrence, Massachusetts, neighborhood where he grew up. But these days, his mission is different from when he was a kid looking to ride bikes or hang out with friends after school. Instead, he is hoping to get young…

Bentley continues its long-standing history of academic innovation with the debut of the Presidential Faculty Fellows program, which provides funding and institutional support for faculty-led initiatives that align with and advance the university’s Falcons…

Paul Knopp, U.S. chair and chief executive officer at KPMG, visited Bentley for a conversation about the evolving accounting profession — including certified public accounting (CPA) requirements and artificial intelligence (AI) — and the outlook for college…