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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: Aug. 14-20

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      Some of the top photos from Central Michigan University events and activities during the week of Aug. 14-20, as captured by University Communications.

      A female college student wearing a blue fleece and a dark orange hair scrunchy uses a microscope in a lab.
      McNair Scholar Sarah Burgoyne works in Amanda Suchy’s lab to identify microplastics from various water sources.
      A female college student wearing a flowery red shirt and black pants stands and points at words written on a whiteboard as professor Larry Lemke sits in a chair next to the whiteboard.
      McNair Scholar Eleanor McFarlan works with geologist and environmental scientist Larry Lemke to trace PFAS contamination flowing into the Rogue River.
      A closeup of a flowerbed full of yellow flowers and purple flowers.
      Flowers bloom on the north end of campus.
      An aerial view over the College of Medicine and Health Professions Building with overcast skies overhead and freshly cut green lawns surrounding the buildings.
      An aerial view of the College of Medicine and Health Professions Building.
      Adam Sparkes and Nikita Murry wear headphones and sit at a round table in a studio. Bright lights shine own with maroon backdrops behind them and cameras on tripods flanking them on either side.
      Adam Sparkes, associate director of multimedia and photography, and Nikita Murry, director of diversity education, record an upcoming episode of The Search Bar podcast in West Hall.

       

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