Dr. Avery Earl

Bentley University

Dr. Avery has spent his life working on diversity initiatives aimed at increasing the number and success rate of minority students and faculty in his own university and in universities across the country. Beyond his role as Equal Opportunities Officer at Bentley University, he has created programs to encourage minorities to apply to college, to work with mentors and affinity groups while students, to apply for and graduate from PhD programs, and to attain faculty positions and tenure across the Boston area and throughout the country. Student programs he created include Kids, Inc. (minority middle-school students introduced to entrepreneurship), METCO Youth Conference (for 250 minority high school students and counselors), Opening Doors (brochure for high school students on courses to prep for college), STEP (to prepare incoming college freshmen), Minority Scholars Summer Institute (to increase the number of minorities in the accounting profession), Asia Women’s Program (for undergrad and grad students), LGBTQ affinity group (undergrads and grads), chapters of NASBA and NABA (undergrad professional groups), Bentley Business Bowl (case competition sponsored by NABA), and many others. He is a leader in the PhD Project, a national effort to train and support minority business professors, starting their Strategies for Success in the College Classroom program. He is a founder of the Boston Business Collaborative through which eight Boston-area management schools attract and retain minority faculty. He invites faculty from HBCU schools to Bentley as visiting scholars. The list of programs he has created and led exceeds the Rosoff word limit.