2026
ORIENTATION Program Schedule
2026 ORIENTATION
SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE Thursday 8/27 Move-in Falcon Family Hub Commuter check-in + meeting Vendor Fair Community Lunch Falcon Walk Convocation Orientation Welcome Dinner Transfer + Exchange Student Meeting First Year Building and RA meetings Flex’s Flock Party
Saturday 8/29 Breakfast Community Connections Rotations: Equity @ Bentley Community Meet-Ups Life of a Bentley Student Yoga with Blue Dinner First-Year Student-Athlete Dinner
Lowering our Shields Falcons After Dark
Friday 8/28 Breakfast Wellness Opportunity Orientation Keynote Group Meetings Lunch First Week Readiness Session Drop-ins Student Accessibility Services Exchange Student Support Flight to Success Rotations: Schedule Assistance Classroom Tours Dinner Honors Program BBQ Global Women Scholars Dinner First Falcons Connect Dinner Bentley Bash
Sunday 8/30 Breakfast Morning Stretch & Donuts with Blue
Ed Gerety Building your Bentley Foundation Rotations: Conduct + Care Foundations of Wellbeing Lunch Group Meeting & Orientation Closing Dinner
THURSDAY 8/27 ORIENTATION PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2026
8:00am - 1:30pm
Move-in
Residence Halls
9:30am - 2:00pm Falcon Family Hub Green Space
10:00am - 3:00pm Vaccine Clinic The Bubble
11:00am - 1:30pm
Commuter Student Check-in rd
11:30am - 2:00pm
Community Lunch
1:30pm - 2:00pm
Commuter Student stMeeting
Student Center 3 Floor 921
Back Bays (Student Center 1 Floor)
11:00am - 2:30pm Vendor Fair Student Center
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Students & Families Gather for the Falcon Walk Green Space
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Convocation
4:15pm - 6:00pm
Orientation Welcome and Meetings with OLs
Arena
Arena/ Lower Campus Fields
6:15pm - 7:30pm
Dinner
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Transfer and Exchange Student Meetings
7:45pm - 9:00pm
First-Year Building and RA Meetings
9:00pm - 11:00pm
Flex’s Flock Party
921
Koumantzelis Auditorium
Trees Complex- Koumantzelis, Miller Hall- LaCava EDR, Slade- Back Bays, Kresge- Lindsay 30 Green Space
FRIDAY 8/28 ORIENTATION PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2026
7:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast 921
8:45 am - 10:00am Orientation Keynote Arena
10:30am - 11:30am Orientation Group Meetings 11:45am - 1:15pm 12:00pm- 1:00pm
Various locations
Lunch
LaCava Tent
Guided Walk on Upper Campus with Blue Upper Campus
1:30pm - 2:45pm
First Week Readiness Session
3:00pm - 4:45pm
Drop-In Student Accessibility Services
3:00pm - 4:45pm
Flight to Success Rotations
FY- Various Classrooms, Transfer - LaCava EDR, HonorsKoumantzelis Auditorium Exchange- LaCava 375 Jennison 336
Upper Campus
Classroom Tour Academic Resource Fair Schedule Support- Smith Trading Room Falcon Discovery Seminar Art Project
4:00pm - 6:30pm
First Falcons Connect Welcome Reception
4:45pm - 6:00pm
Honor’s Program BBQ
4:45pm - 6:00pm
Global Women Scholars Dinner
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Dinner
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Bentley Bash
LaCava 325
LaCava Tent LaCava 375 921
Lower Campus
SATURDAY 8/29 ORIENTATION PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2026
7:00am - 8:30am
Breakfast
9:00am - 4:00pm
Community Connections
921
Various Locations
Equity @Bentley
Koumantzelis Auditorium
Community Meetups
Student Center, Health Center, Counseling Center, University Police
Life of a Bentley Student/ Getting Involved LaCava EDR
Lunch
921/ Tent
Orientation Meetings/ Academic Technology Various Classroom Locations
4:15pm- 5:00pm
Yoga with Blue
5:00pm - 6:30pm
FY Student Athlete Dinner
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Dinner
6:40pm - 8:30pm
Lowering our Shields
8:00pm - 10:30pm
Falcons After Dark
Green Space
Lower Green Space 921
Arena
Student Center
SUNDAY 8/30 ORIENTATION PROGRAM SCHEDULE 2026
7:00am - 8:30pm
Breakfast
7:30am - 8:15am
Morning Stretch and Donuts with Blue
9:00am - 10:00am
Ed Gerety Keynote Speaker
10:30am - 1:30pm
Building your Bentley Foundation Rotations
921
Green Space Arena
Various Locations
Conduct & Care LaCava EDR
Foundations of Wellbeing Koumantzelis Auditorium
Campus Tour/Chill Zone
1:45pm - 2:45pm Orientation Closing Classrooms/Rauch Quad
5:00pm
Dinner 921
Thanks for a great Orientation! Good luck on your first day of classes, and we look forward to seeing you at Falcon 40 events! Scan the QR code for more details: