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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. 

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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.

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      CMU faculty collaborate on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary education book

      by Henry Heller

      Removing the Educational Silos: Models of Interdisciplinary and Multi-disciplinary Education was a collaborative effort between CMU faculty Wiline Pangle (biology), Heather Trommer-Beardslee (theatre and dance), Keeley Stanley-Bohn (theatre and dance), Ann Dasen (theatre and dance), and Jay Batzner (music). 

      The group worked together to edit the book which included soliciting contributions from scholars in the field who are currently engaged in multi- and interdisciplinary models of teaching. The editors also contributed three chapters to the text.  

      Batzner says, “We got project submissions from around the world, which was […] exciting, and the selection process was done by the whole group. We focused individually on chapters/projects that fit our own areas.” 

      Common themes occurring throughout the entire book include collaborative teaching, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary theory, lesson examples, the navigation of administrative systems, and critical analysis related to student learning objectives. 

      Pangle, Trommer-Beardslee, Stanley-Bohn, Dasen, and Batzner hope that the book is used by educators as a source of inspiration for their own teaching endeavors. 

      The book is available at Walmart, the University of Chicago Press, Intellect Books, and Amazon.  

      This story is brought to you by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.

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