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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!

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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. 

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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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      Professors collaborate on book used nationwide

      by Henry Heller

      Susan Jacob, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and Dawn Decker, Ph.D., Professor of Special Education collaborated on the book, “Ethics and Law for School Psychologists (8th ed.).” The textbook is an important resource for most school psychology programs across the nation because it is the only textbook specifically written about ethical and legal considerations.  

      This book is designed to help school psychology students and practitioners plan for the ethical and legal issues that school psychologists face every day.  The book includes the most up-to-date standards and requirements while introducing ethical codes, ethical decision making and the legal foundations that protect the rights of students and their parents.   

      The first edition of “Ethics and Law for School Psychologists” was published in 1991 by Jacob and CMU psychology faculty member Timothy Hartshorne, Ph.D., after they noticed an absence of instructional resources that could be used to teach school psychology graduate students about legal and ethical issues in the field.  

      When Decker joined CMU faculty in Special Education in 2005, Jacob invited her to collaborate on the sixth edition and they have since published the seventh and eighth editions working together. Jacob received the National Association of School Psychologists’ Presidential Awards in 2012 and 2018 for her contributions to the field in ethics and law and in 2021 she was honored with their “Legends in School Psychology” award.  

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

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