Giving Back

Many low-income communities don’t have access to the fresh, healthy food that many of us take for granted. A group of Bentley students hoped to change that by putting their training to work to help a local mobile food organization better serve its customers. ...

Alumni turn trauma toward a larger purpose ...

Alumni improve the future of communities they once called home.  ...

Maureen Flores became vice president for university advancement on July 1, 2017. She oversees all fundraising, alumni engagement, advancement communications, sponsored and grant-seeking programs, the Center for Career Services and the Center for Women and Business. Flores develops philanthropic relationships and delivers a wide variety of engagement programs for alumni, parents and friends. 

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“The way that I approach my classes is experiential in nature,” says Economics Professor Aaron Jackson, winner of Bentley’s 2015 Innovation in Teaching award. “So I not only teach the theories that come out of the textbooks but how to apply them to what we see in the real world.” ...

Carolyn Magid was there at the beginning.

The associate professor of Philosophy and her colleagues were teaching the course Values and Choices, and wanting to help students better understand and empathize with people different from themselves. The faculty took the class to a local homeless shelter to serve meals, in the process creating one of the early service-learning courses in the country.

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Sometimes a one-week trip can change your life. ...

Her mom passed away when she was 11; her father when she was 18. And yet, meeting Olivia Corriveau '18, her quiet determination shines as brightly as her infectious smile — and she can’t help but rave about her Bentley life. ...

"Growing up, going to college was my number one goal," Jaclyn Leduc ’18, a marketing major, remembers. "I did everything I needed to do to make sure I would get there one day. My family was supportive, my high school was helpful and encouraging during the process, and my achievements up to that point seemed to be enough to push me to the college life I’d dreamed of for so long. ...

For Kimberley Elias ’18, studying abroad without financial help just wouldn’t have been possible. But as a Santander fellow at the Grenoble Ecole de Management in France, Kimberley was able to follow in her Irish mother’s footsteps, traveling across the Atlantic to follow her passion. ...