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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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      Forty-one physicians completed their residencies and earned their medical licenses this year. CMU Medical Education Partners, in partnership with Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Covenant HealthCare, and Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital, celebrated its 52nd graduating class of resident and fellow physicians during a June 10, 2022, ceremony at Horizon’s Conference Center in Saginaw Michigan. The resident physicians and fellows spend several years in medical training while serving the local patient population at several CMU Health clinics, Covenant HealthCare, and Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital.

      Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. Residents hold medical degrees and practice medicine under the supervision of an attending physician. Successful completion of a residency program is required to obtain a medical license. The CMU Medical Education Partners residency programs offer several different learning environments including outpatient clinics, hospitals, ambulatory, emergency settings, plus specialty rotations and serve a diverse group of patients in the region. Physician graduates who wish to practice in a specialty may further their education by attending a medical fellowship. A medical fellowship is a training program for medical school graduates who have completed their residency and wish to continue learning in a specific area of medicine.

      “The years of residency are to teach physicians specifics about the specialty in which they’re going to practice and, more importantly, to teach how to approach patient care and the ever-changing healthcare system,” said Mary Jo Wagner, M.D., chief academic officer and designated institutional official of the resident training programs in Saginaw. “These graduates have been a significant part of the growth of CMU Medical Education Partners”.

       The graduating residents received their certificates of completion from Central Michigan University College of Medicine, the medical school affiliated with CMU Medical Education Partners. With their residencies completed, eight will continue their education in fellowships in a medical specialty while thirty will begin working full time as physicians, with seventeen staying in Michigan and fifteen in Mid-Michigan.

      CMU Medical Education Partners oversees eight residency programs including emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, podiatric medicine and surgery, psychiatry, and its newest program, pediatrics. In addition, CMU Medical Education Partners has two fellowship programs, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Emergency Medical Services.

      Source: Emily Landry

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