PROFILE   |   Kelvin Bentley

Kelvin Bentley Director, Community of Practice on Microcredentials

Dr. Kelvin Bentley has over 25 years of experience serving in various roles as a faculty member, administrator, and consultant within the field of higher education, supporting academic innovation initiatives at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities. Dr. Bentley currently serves as the inaugural Project Director for NASH’s Community of Practice on Microcredentials, where he leads efforts to help public higher education systems and their campuses design, scale, and evaluate microcredential initiatives that improve learner and workforce outcomes. In this role, Dr. Bentley collaborates with academic leaders, faculty, and industry partners across multiple state systems to build shared capacity for skills-based learning and the recognition of industry-aligned credentials.

Prior to joining NASH, Dr. Bentley served as the inaugural Program Manager for Texas Credentials for the Future at the University of Texas System, where he guided a system-wide strategy to embed industry-recognized credentials within courses and co-curricular pathways, across UT’s academic and health research campuses. Under his leadership, the initiative expanded access to Google, IBM, and Meta career certificates for tens of thousands of learners, while building and managing innovative collaborations with the Strada Education Foundation, Google, Coursera, Territorium, WorkCred, Skyepack, and other national partners.

Dr. Bentley has received various honors including Coursera’s Learning Hero Award in 2024, Blackboard’s 2017 Catalyst Award for Inclusive Education, his selection as a Fulbright Specialist in 2010 in which he provided faculty development in online course design and instruction to graduate faculty at the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.

Dr. Bentley holds a Ph.D., and Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with honors from Wayne State University.