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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: Nov. 4-11

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      A look back at some of the best photos from events and locations across Central Michigan University's campus and Mt. Pleasant community captured by University Communications from Nov. 4-11.

      Student cast members stand on stage while singing and holding champagne flutes.

      Central Michigan University theatre and dance students perform the Tony-winning musical Kinky Boots inside Bush Theatre.
      A student actor holds two large, red boots in his hands while a his cast members sing in the background.
      Kinky Boots tells the story of Charlie Price who has reluctantly inherited his father's struggling shoe factory. Trying to live up to his father's legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola, a fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos.

      A female student in a maroon CMU shirt stands at a table while working two two fifth grade students.

      STEM Education Scholar Aubrielle Dunn works with 5th graders in the EHS STEM Center.
      A fashion merchandising student works on a white, cloth mannequin while her professor looks on.
      A student in the Department of Fashion Merchandising and Design works with their professor to create a new design.
      Three members of the Army ROTC program stand at attention with flags.
      The CMU community celebrated the contributions of veterans during a Veterans Day program and luncheon inside the Bovee University Center.


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