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 online learning and other types of academic innovation initiatives. These initiatives have included leading online learning offices and teams and piloting and scaling online tutoring and proctoring in support of online learning programs at 2- and 4-year colleges and universities.

Dr. Bentley currently serves as the University of Texas System's first project manager for Texas Credentials for the Future, a new initiative funded in part by a $1.5 million grant from the Strada Education Foundation, designed to grow and scale access to technical skills for students and alumni across 14 universities and health research institutions. He engages in strategic planning and collaboration with UT System faculty, staff, and administrators across the UT System and partners including Google, Coursera, WorkCred, and Skyepack.

In addition, Dr. Bentley is collaborating with the National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH) and Google to support a new community of practice that includes faculty, staff, and administrators across 11 community college and university systems designed to help grow and scale their use of Google Career Certificates and AI courses within academic courses and co-curricular pathways.