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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. 

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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 Health patient safety training goes high tech

      by Sanjna Jassi
      CMU Health medical staff are using patient manikins for regular staff training.

      ​The patient safety training program for CMU Health's medical staff has gone high-tech and will incorporate the state-of-the-art medical simulation lab at the CMU College of Medicine's Saginaw campus.

      The Partners in Patient Safety program's coursework is intended to continually refine the skills of medical staff to keep patients safe and properly cared for at every visit.

      The interactive program, led by nurse Leah Rouleau, a professional educator at CMU College of Medicine, brings CMU Health nurses and medical assistants to the simulation center bimonthly to learn a variety of critical topics of everyday patient care, such as proper hand hygiene, patient privacy, medical and environmental clinic emergencies, basic life support, opioid misuse, and signs of human trafficking in patients.

      Staff will complete their hands-on training with the manikins in a simulated medical environment, where it is safe to make mistakes and learn from them.

      "Not only will these workshops improve safety and communication within our clinics, but they will help our staff continually develop skills as medical professionals," Rouleau said.

      "The program is designed to empower medical staff to properly and independently deal with clinical issues and boost confidence through learning in a simulated environment."

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