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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: Sept. 2-9

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      A look back at some of the best photos from events and locations across Central Michigan University's campus captured by University Communications from Sept. 2-9, 2022.

      A small American flag is planted in the ground.
      2,997 American Flags were placed on the lawn of the Charles V. Park Library to memorialize the victims of September 11th.
      A top-down view of a faculty member working on a photo lab surrounded by students.
      Kris Sanford, associate professor of photography, washes out a cyanotype sheet.
      Four students lie on the ground on top of a blanket.
      Photography students lay under the sunlight to create cyanotype artwork.
      A faculty member holds a large blue blanket-type material while students look on.
      Students hang up their cyanotypes to dry outside of Wightman Hall.
      A waffle bowl gets filled with a scoop of ice cream.
      What's the scoop? Ice cream is served during the Welcome Back Ice Cream Social on Wednesday, Sept. 7 in Warriner Mall.
      Two students smile at each other during the Ice Cream Social.
      Students mingle at the Welcome Back Ice Cream Social.
      President Bob Davies greets two CMU students.
      President Bob Davies greets students during the Welcome Back Ice Cream Social.
      Dozen's of women's cross country athletes run in a pack.
      The CMU Women’s Cross Country team placed first out of six teams at the 37th annual Jeff Drenth Memorial at Shepherd High School.
      A CMU men's cross country runner leads a group of five runners while spectators cheer.
      The CMU Men's Cross Country team finished 3rd out of eight teams at the Jeff Drenth Memorial.

       

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