Bentley College celebrates the inauguration of Gloria Cordes Larson as its 7th, and first female, president with a multi-day series of events highlighting the institution's commitment to service and leadership.
On Friday, March 28, Gloria Cordes Larson will be formally installed as Bentley's 7th president at a ceremony in the Charles A. Dana Center on the Bentley campus at 2:00 p.m.
President Larson will be greeted during the ceremony by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, representing elected officials; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, delivers greetings from the higher education community; and Cleve L. Killingsworth, chairman and CEO, BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts, will bring greetings from the business community. Additional greetings will come from members of the internal Bentley community. J. Terence Carleton, chairman of the Bentley Board of Trustees, will formally install President Larson during the ceremony.
Gloria Cordes Larson, JD, a public policy expert, lawyer and business leader, assumed the presidency of Bentley in July 2007. She joined the school from the leading law firm Foley Hoag, where she co-chaired the Government Strategies Group. Widely influential in economic policy, Larson led a business advisory cabinet for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and co-chaired his transition team. Under her leadership as the Chair of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, the organization oversaw renovation of the MassMutual Center in Springfield and construction of the $800 million Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Larson has been honored and recognized by many groups for her contributions and commitment to civic duty, especially for raising awareness of the need for education reform and for promoting the role of business in changing that landscape. She is a member of the Massachusetts, Virginia and Boston bar associations.
For more information on Gloria Cordes Larson, please go to http://www.bentley.edu/about/bentley-president/index.cfm
For more information on the inauguration, please go to: www.bentley.edu/celebrate.
On Thursday, March 27 Bentley hosts the fourth annual Bentley Leadership Forum, in cooperation with TIME magazine. President Larson and Ed McCarrick, President and Worldwide Publisher of TIME Magazine, will kick off the event. Patty Stonesifer, Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the keynote speaker for the morning session. Michael Brown, co-Founder and CEO of City Year, is the featured speaker at a luncheon honoring the Tomorrow25, a group of young business leaders. This year's Leadership Forum program focuses on the theme: The Global Imperative to Serve the Public Good.
Following Stonesifer, a distinguished panel of international leaders will examine how organizations must incorporate a commitment to social responsibility into their operating model. The panelists are:
Swanee Hunt, Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Director, Women and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Charles Stith, Former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, Director, African Presidential Archives and Research Center, Boston University
Carol Cone, Chair, Cone Communications, specializing in Cause Branding® and strategic philanthropy
Program moderators include Romesh Ratnesar, deputy managing editor, TIME Magazine; and Tony Buono, Bentley Professor of Management and Coordinator, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility.
During the luncheon, Bentley honors 25 highly accomplished high school juniors at its Tomorrow25 program. The students were selected from more than 500 international nominees who participated in the Bentley leadership competition.
The Leadership Forum is open to the public. For more information on the program and the Tomorrow25, and to register to attend, please go to http://www.bentley.edu/leadership
On Wednesday, March 26 Bentley showcases service projects with communities near and far. The day will feature opportunities for the Bentley community to actively participate in service campaigns, learn more about ongoing programs initiated by students, faculty and staff, and hear from four remarkable Tunisian women who will participate in a panel session focused on the challenges faced by women in North Africa. Their discussion will explore how commitment to service and activism has contributed to the successes and continued struggle to guarantee basic human rights for Arab-Muslim women in independent Tunisia.
Service Day Activities
A Service Showcase at the Smith Academic Center will highlight more than 75 Bentley individuals and student organizations who participate in service initiatives in local and global communities.
A special Service Day t-shirt, designed and distributed by Bentley students, will be sold to fund educational packets that will be donated to designated charity groups in local communities and in developing countries. The Bentley community will assemble the packets on campus throughout the day.
Led by the Greek organizations on campus, students will also hold a Bentley logo t-shirt drive to gather over 4,000 t-shirts to be donated to various nonprofit sites in the local Waltham and Boston areas, as well as to other parts of the world. This is a unique person-to-person product exchange as each t-shirt donated will bear the college's name as a symbol of institutional pride and sharing.
As part of Bentley's ongoing partnership with the Mmofra Trom Children's Center in Ghana, Africa, students are developing a marketing plan for distribution of kiln-fired beads made by the children at the Center. On Service Day, the Bentley community will help string thousands of these signature beads into bracelets, in preparation for delivering samples to jewelry outlets.
For more information on Service Day at Bentley, please go to http://www.bentley.edu/celebrate/service.cfm
Bentley is a national leader in business education. Centered on education and research in business and related professions, Bentley blends the breadth and technological strength of a university with the values and student focus of a small college. Our undergraduate curriculum combines business study with a strong foundation in the arts and sciences. A broad array of offerings at the McCallum Graduate School emphasize the impact of technology on business practice, including MBA and Master of Science programs, PhD programs in accountancy and in business, and selected executive programs. Enrolling approximately 4,000 full-time undergraduate, 250 adult part-time undergraduate, and 1,270 graduate students, Bentley is located in Waltham, Mass., minutes west of Boston.
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