DAYTONA BEACH — E. LaBrent Chrite, who abruptly resigned as president of Bethune-Cookman University on Tuesday morning without first informing the school's Board of Trustees, already has a new job. Chrite is the new president of Bentley University, a private school located in Waltham, Mass. The school is focused on business education and is touted as one of the best business schools in the Northeast. Bentley has undergraduate, masters degree and PhD programs. Its enrollment includes 4,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students. Waltham is a city of about 63,000 people located about 11 miles northwest of downtown Boston. Bentley's website says that the search for a new president began in September 2020 — an indication that Chrite may have been looking to leave B-CU for months.