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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.
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.
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The Teaching and Learning Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) has named Sociology faculty member Mary Scheuer Senter recipient of the 2022 Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Sociology.
The award recognizes a colleague with a distinguished and demonstrated career of service to undergraduates in Sociology in program development, teaching innovation, leadership, and scholarship.
As recipient of the award, Senter presented the Mauksch keynote address August 21 during the 2023 ASA annual meetings. Her talk, “The Pandemic Classroom and Supportive Relationships: An Antidote to Neo-liberalism in Higher Education?”, is based on surveys of faculty addressing the ways in which their pedagogy changed during the pandemic and on qualitative interviews with students exploring their views about and experiences working with supportive faculty.
Senter suggests that a new pedagogy of care focused on connections, collaboration, and flexibility may be emerging in the post-pandemic academy. Her presentation will be published in an upcoming issue of the ASA’s Teaching Sociology.
Explore special opportunities to learn new skills and travel the world.
Present your venture and win BIG at the New Venture Challenge.
Boost your entrepreneurial skills through our workshops, mentor meetups and pitch competitions.
Learn about the entrepreneurship makerspace on campus in Grawn Hall.
Present a 2-minute pitch at the Make-A-Pitch Competition and you could win prizes and bragging rights!
Connect with mentors and faculty who are here to support the next generation of CMU entrepreneurs.
Are you a CMU alum looking to support CMU student entrepreneurs? Learn how you can support or donate to the Entrepreneurship Institute.