Brent Betit

Dr. Brent Betit is the chief operating officer at Beacon College.

With a wide-ranging career in education, Betit most recently served as head of school at The Fletcher School for five years, where he was recognized by the Board and Chair for multiple hallmark achievements, including: quintupled the endowment, launched a community-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative, raised faculty salaries by an average of 18%, attained record enrollment and retention, and significantly increased financial aid fundraising and awards to families.

Previously, Betit served as a staff founder at Landmark College, serving nearly three decades in this academic community. While at Landmark, he served as senior vice president, executive vice president and provost and held many senior management positions.

His diverse career includes teaching at the elementary, middle, and high school levels and serving as director of operations for a construction company, founding a technology company, and working as a journalist for a national magazine.

Previously, Betit also held the position of deputy executive director for educational affairs of the King Salman Center for Disability Research in Saudi Arabia, overseeing the Academic Training Division – where he co-developed a Transition to University Program for International Students (the Summer for Success) for Beacon College as an element of the college’s strategic plan. He also established cooperative agreements with U.S. universities, and developed the foundation for a five-year, kingdom-level strategic plan, The King Salman National Program for Learning Disabilities.

A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College in English Language and Literature, with major honors of highest distinction, he later received his doctorate in education at Fielding Graduate University.

Betit, a seventh generation Vermonter, and his wife, Julie, are the proud parents of two phenomenally successful adult sons – both with ADD (just like their father).