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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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      Counseling faculty member honored

      by Sanjay Gupta
      CMU counseling faculty member Sheri Pickover receives a national award from the American Counseling Association for her contributions to the field.

      Central Michigan University counseling and special education faculty member Sheri Pickover will receive a national award from the American Counseling Association for her contributions to the field of counseling.

      Pickover will receive the Don Dinkmeyer Social Interest Award March 30 at the 2019 ACA Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

      Pickover’s 30 years of clinical experience include providing individual, group and family counseling for children and families in the child welfare system.

      She also has provided clinical supervision for students and professionals for the past 20 years. Her clinical experience included providing outreach services in foster and birth homes, and developing and directing a no-cost mental health clinic in Detroit.

      As a counselor educator, Pickover has trained clinical mental health, school and addiction counselors for 15 years, with a focus on crisis intervention skills, human development and assessment.

      Pickover has published several articles, book chapters and co-authored a text on engaging families in treatment. She also has developed a family counseling course and presented at local, state, national and international conferences.

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