The Multicultural Center

Thank you to everyone who came to the CAP/STEP 20th Anniversary
Celebration on Saturday, May 5th! Send us your pictures from the night, GA_Multicultural_Center@bentley.edu or friend us on Facebook!

Congratulations to our graduating seniors! Please come back and visit us soon!

A Message from the Director...

Greetings! 

On behalf of the Multicultural Center (MCC), it is my great pleasure to welcome you to our site! The MCC serves to further the retention and success of Bentley University’s ALANA students (ALANA refers to African-American, Latino (a), Asian-American, Native-American and Multircacial).  The mission of Multicultural Center (MCC) is to provide quality services and programs that support and enhance the collegiate experience, particularly for students of color. We seek to foster a learning environment that enriches the cultural, educational, professional, and social lives of students, providing opportunities for holistic development. Through advising, advocacy, and outreach, the MCC is dedicated to an inclusive and diverse community and helps students excel individually and collectively, particularly those from underrepresented and historically marginalized populations..  In addition, the office provides services and support to campus departments and organizations and externally to corporations, companies, and agencies, which seek to help students of color succeed academcially, professionally, personally and socially.

We acknowledge that all students exhibit universal needs that transcend racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds. As a result, our programs and services are designed to facilitate thier personal and professional growth. It is important to us that we help them develop and enhance their skills while providing them with information they will need to navigate their way through a successful collegiate experience.

Accordingly, the MCC has designed a welcome program that helps all first year ALANA student’s acclimate to campus life while helping them establish connections. The ALANA Experience is a 3.5-day program open to newly enrolled students of color.  This year the program will begin on August 25^th. Click the ALANA Expereince button to find out additonal information on that unique welcome program!

It is our goal to create a supportive environment in which awareness, growth, leadership, and service are fostered through intentional endeavors and meaningful interactions. It is our hope that you will find the Multicultural Center to be your “home away from home,” where you can discover yourself and the world around you, and where you can foster relationships that are life long. With this, we welcome you to Bentley University and the Multicultural Center.

Should you have any questions, feel free to contact our office by phone at 781.891.2132, or feel free to email at jbuntin@bentley.edu

We look forward to meeting you!

Regards,

Jeannette Buntin, Director

See a few of our exemplary students here...

Mary Meas

Class of 2015

Major: Undecided

“Bentley University is a place I can call my second home; they offer you so much and you have to be the one to take it. My freshman year has been spectacular; it’s an honor to be a Project Manager as a Freshman for Bentley’s own Service Learning Center. I have the opportunity to mentor/tutor kids while living my dream. I also found my family at the Multicultural Center and from there, I know I belong at a school where my background doesn’t matter but my skills do.”

Shondell Butler

Class of 2014

Major: Management and Health and Industries

"Something I would like for incoming freshmen to know would be to not be afraid of being themselves when coming onto this campus and meeting our community. Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being “silly,” but the word “silly” comes from the old English word “selig,” and its literal definition is “to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous.” “Live, Laugh, Love” is not just an expression, it’s a lifestyle that should apply wherever one goes."

Joselinda Correia

Class of 2013

Major: Accounting
Minor: Law

"Bentley has endless opportunities for its students. The Multicultural Center is one of those many opportunities that supports and guides students to achieve excellence while at Bentley and beyond in your professional career. The Center will always be there to help but one must be able to take initiative and seek the wonderful gifts that is sitting there waiting for you."

Claude Philippe Louis

Class of 2012

Major: Management
Minor: Philosophy

"My undergraduate career here at Bentley University. The MCC was a major reason as to why I was able to obtain an internship with Pricewaterhouse Coopers my freshmen year. It’s not about what you know, but who you know, and what they know about you."