Kelvin William Bentley

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Kelvin Bentley
Director of Online Learning
Northampton Community College
Bethlehem, PA  18020


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Kelvin Bentley serves as the Director of Distance Learning for Northampton Community College. He oversees the Distance Learning Office at NCC and provides oversight for all credit-based, distance learning strategic planning and activities that include online course development, the hiring and evaluation of online instructors, and collaboration with student services offices to enhance the quality of student services to distance learners.

Kelvin's professional interests include teaching and serving as a quality assurance specialist for projects such as Quality Matters and as a reviewer of distance education programs for accreditation bodies such as the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).

Kelvin earned a PhD from the University of Delaware in 1999 with a major area concentration in clinical psychology. Since this time, he has taught at the assistant professor level and held various administrative positions including the coordinator of Louisiana's first online, Bachelor of Science program in psychology from 2001-2003 at Northwestern State University. From 2003-2005, he served as the Dean of General Education for Baker Online and from 2005-2006, he worked for the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University as the dean's Academic Director of Online and Extended Education.