Bentley University is committed to faculty diversity, which means:
- Maintaining an inclusive campus environment
- Developing and supporting a faculty that is culturally diverse
- Supporting and encouraging a broad range of research initiatives
- Enabling faculty to honor our increasingly diverse student body both in and out of the classroom
- Participating in service oriented activities that support and enrich the campus community and a diverse cross-section of not-for-profits organizations, neighborhoods and communities.
Some ways in which faculty contribute to the diversity initiative:
- Faculty develop and teach a broad range of diversity-related courses focusing on a rich set of topics.
- Faculty participate in a plethora of diversity-related scholarship.
- Traverse the globe, often with groups of students, to see how work and learning occur in a different environment (read about our work with The Mmofra Trom Center)
- Senior faculty mentor, coach, and support junior faculty as they settle into the campus environment, conduct research and publish and, most especially, teach and support students.
- Faculty serve on our Diversity Council as well as on project teams focused on faculty recruitment and tenure.
Diversity related support for faculty
In addition to the many resources provided to faculty for their teaching and research endeavors, the university also encourages faculty to:
- Participate in our Diversity Retreats, which serve to deepen individual awareness and understanding of diversity dynamics in society, at Bentley, and in individual departments, offices and classrooms.
- Apply for Diversity Mini-Grants, to support activities not funded through other budgets, which contribute to Bentley being a place that values the diversity of its people. Projects supported by these grants focus on making the Bentley culture healthy in relation to differences of race, nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, class, age and/or other key differences.
