alena -
03/01/2020Excellent community college. Been a student since 2015, getting my second Associates degree here this fall and just completed a Marketing certificate in the fall of 2019. I've never attended any other school but CNM hits every mark for me, therefore, I've never had to leave.
I love being in a cultural environment where we're all here for each other no matter where you come from (ghetto, reservation, projects, incarceration, homelessness, disabled, religion-oriented, LGBTQ+, foreign student) and CNM does this.
When tensions were high during the presidential election, the CNM president sent out an email to ALL students and employees a few years ago saying CNM welcomes everyone no matter what age, race, ethnic background, or religion you come from. I felt very proud and saved that email. It was nice to be attending a school where the President sent out an email making everyone feel comfortable, welcome, and safe. I have never seen a hate crime at CNM in all my years attending. We all make friends with each other no matter what culture or religion you practice. Every teacher I've had made sure to make it aware at the beginning of the semester, that if you have a disability just let them know and they can accommodate you.
Pros: Security makes sure to send out an email to the entire school when something unsafe has happened immediately. They want us to be aware of what is going on at campus at all times so we can be on the lookout for ourselves as well as others.
The school is "green" oriented, lots of study areas, security is always patrolling campus, the classes are never over 30ish students - on average it's about 20-25, the admissions/school staff are always helpful and make you feel welcome and appreciated, the school technology is on par and up to date for students, LGBTQ+ friendly, Theatre & Arts opportunities, partnership with Facebook in the Digital Marketing Certificate and they try their best to help the local Native American CNM students with more opportunities.
Almost every month CNM hosts job /internship fairs, university recruiting fairs, student employment fairs, and annual celebrations when the holidays come around.
CNM recently built in some school books with tuition, so you sign up for a class and you pay a higher price upfront but the book is included once you start class, and don't have to worry about getting the right book or it shipping in time. As of right now this mainly happens with the STEM/lab classes.
Most of the professors are passionate about their jobs, but there are also always the ones who just need a paycheck and treat it as such but that is with any job or profession. Tutoring is available 6 days a week. The career job connections services are available to you as a student and for a lifetime if you are a graduate from CNM. They helped me get my first internship, and build my resume from scratch. They even offered to help me write scholarship essays; this service is a secret treasure at CNM no one really takes advantage of.
Cons: General Admission Parking is scarce at certain times of the day. Certain study areas could use more outlets for laptops/electronics. Marketing for events that are happening at the school could be better (sometimes you don't know until the event is happening until the day of). Not enough outdoor-friendly studying areas. They mainly have benches all around campus but almost 0 tables or shady areas for you to enjoy the outdoors. And the study areas that are near the windows are few and far between and don’t usually have outlets and/or tables. The lab courses are kind of perplexing; the lab classes are about 4 hours long yet they are only worth 1 credit hour.
I love CNM because it has diversity and it’s a “big” small community college with around 20k enrolled students. People here want to better themselves no matter what background they come from and it’s inspiring for me. Sure it has it’s cons but the benefits outshine them greatly.
