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The Jeanne and Dan Valente Center for the Arts and Sciences at Bentley University
Through its programs, the Valente Center aims to promote individual scholarship while cultivating research and teaching at the intersection of arts, sciences and business.

History
Founded in 2006 by a generous donation from Jeanne and Dan Valente In 2011, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $395,000 Challenge Grant to the institution to build an endowment for innovative humanities programming, a rare honor for a business school. . This award funds three programs directed by the Valente Center: a research seminar that brings Bentley and non-Bentley humanities scholars together to investigate topics of common interest; a program that welcomes humanities scholars to Bentley for multiday visits with students and faculty; and an intensive reading seminar to give undergraduates and faculty opportunities to rigorously engage great books together.

Mission
The mission of the Valente Center is to sustain the arts and sciences as a vital, integral, and challenging aspect of undergraduate and graduate education at Bentley. The Valente Center contributes to the overall intellectual life on campus by organizing special events on a variety of topics and by hosting visiting scholars from a range of fields in the arts and sciences. The center supports faculty and student research through fellowships, student research assistantships, and workshops, including a humanities research seminar with participating fellows from across Boston-area institutions, the Albano self-directed student seminars, and the Undergraduate Fellows (“Great Books”) Seminar. Through its programs, the Valente Center aims to promote individual scholarship while cultivating research and teaching at the intersection of arts, sciences and business. The center also consciously tries to raise the national and international profile of Bentley’s arts and sciences disciplines

Directors

 * 1) Cyrus Veeser (HI) 2004-2008
 * 2) Chris Beneke (HI) 2008-2012
 * 3) Gesa Kirsch (EMS) 2012-2015
 * 4) Dave Szymanski (NAS) 2015-present

Accreditations

 * NEASC
 * EFMD EQUIS

Videos
10/12/2017A New Racial Literacy: Beyond the Color Blind: Dr. Jabari Mahiri, William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Teaching, University of California Berkeley 11/08/2016 Diversity, Identity, and Technology: Dr. Andre Brock 09/17/2014 The Operating System of Your Life Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia. 04/09/2014 Lessons From Iceland About the Making and Unmaking of the Financial Crisis Sigridur Ingibjörg Ingadóttir, Member of Parliament, Iceland. 10/28/2013 Open discussion with Dr. Andy Boynton] Dr. Andy Boynton, Boston College 10/02/2013 Book Launch for George Ellenbogen George Ellenbogen, poet and creative writer, Bentley Professor Emeritus 4/10/2013 Beyond Story and Discourse: The Ethics and Rhetoric of Narrative Communication Dr. James Phelan, Ohio State University.