Mission: Graduate Student & Academic Services

Graduate Student & Academic Services is responsible for supporting student learning through an intentionally structured co-curricular experience.  Programs and services are intentionally directed towards supporting academic achievement and sustaining community values and expectations.  Following the belief that learning is a comprehensive, holistic, transformative activity that integrates academic engagement and personal development, strategic initiatives are directed towards:

Supporting Academic Achievement:  Graduate Student & Academic Services shares responsibility for the planning and delivery of the faculty approved graduate academic curriculum.  In concert with faculty, academic planning and support initiatives are achieved through a structured academic advising system, administration of curricular policy and procedure, and targeted workshops and seminars.  

Sustaining Community Values and Expectations:  Graduate Student & Academic Services shares responsibility for cohort and community development initiatives.  Community development is accomplished through event planning and sponsorship, appropriate resource referral, and student organization advising.  Graduate Student & Academic Services is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the values and policies espoused in the Bentley Beliefs, Bentley Honor Code, Graduate Academic Catalog and Graduate Student Handbook.