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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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      CMU, faculty association reach contract agreement

      by Sanjna Jassi
      Central Michigan University and the CMU Faculty Association announce ratification of a new five-year collective bargaining agreement.

      Central Michigan University and the CMU Faculty Association announced today ratification of a new five-year collective bargaining agreement following member voting early this week.

      The agreement, which represents about 633 faculty members, is effective July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2024. It provides modest annual increases reflecting CMU's sensitivity to enrollment numbers and appropriate increases to the employer's contribution to health care premiums. the parties also agreed to language creating parental leave for bargaining unit members who do not accrue paid vacation.

      CMU and the FA met for 12 formal bargaining sessions during May and June with the teams logging many more hours of preparation in the months leading up to bargaining and also during collective bargaining.

      CMU has settled all three collectively bargained agreements that expired this summer. Within the last two months, the university also reached agreement with the UAW Local 6888 — CMU's clerical and office support employees — and the CMU Chapter of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians-Communications Workers of America. The CMU Faculty Association is a unit of the Michigan Education Association.

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