1984: Computer Fluency

Throughout the early part of the 1980s, class offerings in computer systems expanded, and general computing resources on campus grew. However, Bentley leaders also wanted to ensure that students would become, in the words of President Adamian "computer fluen[t]" as opposed to simply "computer litera[te]." 

At the beginning of the 1984-1985 school year, 115 first-year students were given "portable micro-computers" to use in selected Accounting, English, and Computer Information Systems classes. This was called the "Computer Information Systems pilot program."

By the next year, portable micro-computers were distributed to all incoming students on campus. The size and specs might be different, but this is the same program that Bentley students benefit from now when they receive their laptops upon arrival!