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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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      Critical Engagements: Fake News

      by Sanjna Jassi
      The theme for the 2019-2020 Critical Engagements series is Fake News: What do we know and how do we know it?

      How do we know what we know? That’s the question posed by this year’s Critical Engagements series at Central Michigan University.

      The accusation of “fake news” is being used with increasing frequency, but the meaning of the phrase remains unclear: Does it refer to deliberate misinformation, propaganda or is it simply news that the listener finds objectionable?

      The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences will kick off the 2019-2020 Critical Engagements theme with two panel discussions that explore concepts such as truth and fact, news and propaganda, experts, and conspiracy theory.

      Faculty and community members look into the origins of and controversies surrounding vaccinations and autism at the “Vaccination: When ‘Fake News’ Has Lasting Consequences” event 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in Anspach Hall 162.

      The campus and community also are invited to participate in a discussion of fake news, facts and truth at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, in Anspach Hall161. Panelists include CMU library staff and faculty from sociology, psychology, earth and atmospheric sciences, journalism, history and philosophy.

      Both events are hosted by the Critical Engagements initiative, which brings together students and faculty from across campus to consider pressing issues and challenging topics.

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