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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.

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      The week in photos: July 24-30

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      Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of July 24-30, as captured by University Communications.

      Four people hold onto the sides of a small boat while wearing waders in the water as the Mackinac Bridge stands tall in the distance.
      Wetland Technician for the Great Lakes Research Institute Bridget Wheelock (gold shirt) works with students near St. Ignace to sample and catalog the aquatic life found in the coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes.
      A group of four people standing in the water wearing waders examine biology samples.
      Wheelock and the biology students examine the samples they pulled from the water near St. Ignace.
      Two hands wearing wearing blue tie dyed gloves hold a small invertebrate pulled from the Great Lakes.
      A close-up of one of the invertebrates cataloged by the CMU team during its surveying trip to St. Ignace.
      A group of 16 people wearing CMU apparel stand together for a group photo outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
      More than 300 alumni and friends from the 1990s and 2000s took part in CMU Alumni Takeover Weekend.
      Three people wearing hats sit at a picnic table talking during a tailgating event.
      Alumni Takeover Weekend featured a tailgate parking lot party outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium, educational classes taught by alumni, a Mount Pleasant bar crawl and more.
      Two women embrace on a sidewalk outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium as a third woman stands next to them.
      Alumni Takeover Weekend is taking a hiatus in 2024 and will return in 2025.

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