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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: June 19-25

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      Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of June 19-25, as captured by University Communications.

      A large group of people sit in an auditorium looking at a movie screen showing a documentary as four televisions flank the sides of the room showing the same documentary.
      In recognition of Juneteenth, the Office for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion screened the documentary “Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom” in the Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium inside the Charles V. Park Library.
      Six people sit in chairs on the stage of an auditorium with a host standing near a podium off to the side. A large group of people looks on from their seats.
      Following the screening, a panel of students and professionals led a discussion about the history and importance of Juneteenth.
      Approximately 25 soon-to-be college freshmen sit in groups of three at small, square tables for College of Business Administration orientation inside the brightly-lit atrium of Grawn Hall.
      Students attending new student orientation met in the Grawn Hall atrium to learn more about the College of Business Administration.
      Small, white flowers bloom and are blurred in the foreground with the focus of the photo on Charles V. Park Library, a large, brick building, in the background.
      Flowers bloom next to the Charles V. Park Library on the first day of summer.
      A long, dark corridor with many windows inside the Biosciences Building.
      A look inside the Biosciences Building from the second floor.

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