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Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship

We are a dedicated institute for student entrepreneurs across campus and beyond. We aim to maximize your success by fostering your entrepreneurial mindset, promote inter-disciplinary collaboration and provide support for the creation and development of your new ventures. Jumpstart your ideas and get involved today!

Tune in for excitement!

Passion. Potential. Pitches. Don't miss any of the 2025 New Venture Challenge excitement.

Tune in Friday, April 11 at 1 p.m. for great ideas and fierce competition. Then, join the judges, mentors, spectators and teams as they see who is going home with thousands of dollars in venture financing. The awards broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. and one team will walk away as the overall best venture. 

Start your entrepreneurial journey

Central Michigan University’s College of Business Administration is the home of the Isabella Bank Institute for Entrepreneurship and the first Department of Entrepreneurship in the state of Michigan. We are a student-centric hub where experiential, curricular, and external entrepreneurial opportunities intersect.

Our mission is to maximize student success by fostering a campus-wide entrepreneurial mindset that promotes inter-disciplinary collaboration and the creation of new ventures.

We aim to create innovative programming, boost cross-campus and ecosystem collaboration and provide a comprehensive mentoring program.

Our institute provides extracurricular opportunities and is open to all undergraduate and graduate CMU students.

Student opportunities

  • Meet experienced alumni, faculty, entrepreneurs, investors, and other business and political leaders.
  • Learn practical skills, innovative thinking, and connect with mentors and entrepreneurial resources.
  • Attend skill-building workshops and compete in pitch competitions and Hackathons.
  • Take part in special scholarship programs and travel experiences.
  • Pitch your venture at our signature New Venture Challenge event and compete for up to $20,000 in cash awards.

      Find your path

      Are you interested in becoming an entrepreneur?

      Every journey is unique. Explore the opportunities that interest you.

      ©Charles Pompilius, Ivy, oil on wood panel, 2001Central Michigan University alum and Michigan-Born artist, Charles Pompilius, is widely recognized as one of the state’s preeminent artists. His artworks from the Douglas and Brenda Baker Art Collection will be on display from October 14 through November 19. The exhibition is taking place in two exhibition locations: the Baber Room Gallery, Park Library, and the University Art Gallery.

      A painter for more than 40 years, Pompilius is a student of classicism who brings images together through color, light, and form. He is noted for his meticulously rendered, light-infused figurative paintings, attributes that were important to Governor Granholm in commissioning him to paint her official portrait that hangs in the State Capitol.

      Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, October 20, 2022, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., in the Baber Room Gallery, Park Library, and The University Art Gallery. Remarks from the artist and collector will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Baber Room Gallery.

      The Exhibition and Opening Reception is free and open to the public.

      Learn more at library.cmich.edu/Exhibitions

      Source: Kari Chrenka

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