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2 The CNM Chronicle January 20 -February 2, 2015STUDENT NEWS

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By Guadalupe Santos-SanchezSenior Reporter

Students who are enrolled in a Career Technical Education program (CTE) at CNM may now qualify for Supplemental Neutrino Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, said CNM Connect achievement coach at CNM Connect, Sally Moore.

Simply being enrolled in a CTE program serves as a qualification for SNAP benefits and students are not required to have a work requirement, she said.

“Most students when they go to the Human Services Department (HSD) are often being told that, no matter what, they have to be working 20 hours a week, but there are eight other ways that students can qualify beyond work-ing,” she said.

They can just be students, go to school full time, and not have to work 20 hours a week, she said.

If students are enrolled in a Career Technical Education program, or are over 50 years old, or are working 20 hours a week, they may qualify for SNAP benefits, she said.

All employees at the CNM Connect Centers are trained to help people with their SNAP application, she said.

Students can complete their application online on the yesnewmexico.org website, she said.

Their application will be date stamped and when they submit it to HSD they can prove that they did apply, she said.

Online they can also check the status of their claim and or request for benefits, and even if they didn’t apply online they can also do their renewal online, she said.

It is beneficial if they pick up a Financial Aid and Budget verification form at a Connect Center or Financial Aid office, she said.

They only fill the top part of the form and then take it to Financial Aid, where Financial Aid and Admissions fills in the remaining sections of the form. Students can then pick up the form at Records and submit it online, she said.

“The Center of Law and Poverty is just an excellent source if the student believes that they should receive benefits but they weren’t awarded,” she said.

Students can fax in an appeal if they’ve been denied; all the Connect Centers also have appeal forms and brochures about knowing your rights but only law and poverty can assist with the appeal, she said.

And usually HSD will want to settle before the hearing, she said. “Sometimes it’s just that the HSD worker wasn’t trained or didn’t remem-

ber, and the student will be awarded through the hearing process,” she said.Students have to appeal within a certain number of days after applying,

she said.Students can request a hearing up to 90 days of the date they were noti-

fied. If they want to keep their regular benefits until the hearing they must request a hearing by the 13th day

“This new rule is a huge advantage, students really need this money,” Moore said.

There may be as many as six or seven thousand students who qualify that are not currently getting benefits, she said.

“Many students have so much trouble juggling family, school, and work,” she said.

SNAP benefits can mean that students may not have to work and they can really thrive in their schooling, she said.

They can comprehend the material better because they will be eating better and will not stress trying to get to work, she said.

This is important because SNAP provides students with a regular source of nutrition assistance. Without food students cannot study, learn, pay atten-tion, or graduate, said Louise Pocock, staff attorney with New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty.

“While students are in school they are still impoverished and they need assistance, and I think Congress was aware of that,” Moore said.

The general rule is that college students are not eligible for SNAP, and over the years congress has created many exceptions to that rule so that low-income college students use food stamp benefits as a resource to help them complete school, Pocock said.

In the 2014 farm bill, congress created a new exception that allows any student in a CTE course to qualify for food stamps, assuming that they meet income and New Mexico residency requirements, she said.

New Mexico HSD has pledged to begin applying the exception as of September 19, 2014, she said.

Many students who come to community colleges are already in poverty and are coming to college to get out of poverty, Moore said.

“That’s the intent of food stamps, to help people take the rough edges off poverty and to enable people to eventually thrive,” she said.

About half of the students who attend CNM receive financial aid, she said. “So if they’re receiving financial aid, they have a financial need, what level

of poverty that is I’m not familiar with,” she said. A living wage and poverty are two different things, she said. The measure used for poverty no longer works to identify whether or not

a person can live on the income that they receive, she said.When the measurement of poverty was created, it said that one-third of

the funds that a person spends would be towards food, she said. “Now food is a much smaller amount of the total funds that are spent.

People now have to buy car insurance and health insurance. Prices have gone up; school tuition has gone up, costs of books, gas, living expenses, deposits, utilities have all gone up,” she said.

So much has increased that students have a very difficult time maintain-ing and meeting

In the fall students have to be able to budget the funds that they receive in September all the way through February because they are not going to get their spring semester funds until three weeks after the semester starts, she said.

“I know that a lot of students here don’t have housing and they’re hungry,” Moore said.

“This new rule is a huge advantage, students really need this money,” -Sally Moore

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SuncatChit Chat

Monique Mills, Applied Sciences degree in Culinary Arts, School of BIT

What advice would you give to students to help them accomplish graduation?

“Keep trying because it does get to a point where you feel like you’re just going to be here forever, but just get over that hump and keep going and you’ll be there before you know it, and it’s awesome.”

Audeen Bashista, Aviation Mainte-nance degree, School of AT

Is there anything that you wish you or CNM would have done differently?

“I would be cautious on the advisors that you see, be sure that you go to see an academic advisor in the school that you’re studying.”

Her Shksurshid, Pre-Health Sciences degree, School of MSE


“Probably more classes for English as a second language and more tutoring for those with English as a second language because when we come to this country we don’t know a lot of English and we need more help for that.”

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Chit ChatFall 2014 Graduation

Maya Cameron, G.E.D., SAGE

What advice would you give to students that are potentially following your process?

“It’s the best thing I ever did, best thing ever, to get out of high school and to get ahead, and you secretly get your diploma, so it couldn’t be better than that.”

Raul Villalobos, Criminal Jus-tice degree, School of HWPS

How do you feel?

“I feel good, from my family I’m the first person to graduate from college, so I feel accomplished. I’ve already got a job with my degree, I have a position as a correc-tor’s officer for MDC so I feel great!”

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Kameron Powers, Applied Sci-ences degree, School of HWPS


“I wish they would have done more with myCNM because it’s similar to Blackboard, it would continue to crash or would take hours to update.”

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By Guadalupe Santos-SanchezSenior Reporter

CNM will be closing its Career and Transfer Information Center and moving the services to the new Welcome Center, said Ann Lyn Hall, executive director of CNM Connect.

It will be part of the CNM Connect center and an attempt to better support students by not sending them from one office to another and instead having all the services in one spot, she said.

“We want to put the services where students are versus making students come to where the services are, so it’s a different way of providing the same services and I’m hopeful that we’ll actually meet students’ needs better,” Hall said.

It is the place where current and future students can get help with all the little things that they are stuck on, said Jennifer Cornish, executive director of Multi-Campus Operations.

They will provide guidance when students just are not sure where to start, she said.

The Welcome Center will provide information about CNM courses, programs, admissions, registration, and financial aid and help students access and understand their myCNM, she said.

They can also help students with quick things such as making appointments with advisors, prerequisite overrides, and registering for a parking permit, she said.

They will assist students with information about transferring to four-year universities, and can help with career information and decision-making, she said.

The Welcome Center personnel will be trained as generalists – they will know something about every ser-vice and department at CNM, she said.

The Welcome Center will also have a part-time trans-lator to assist the Spanish-speaking population, she said.

The translator will help with in-person interpreting and written translation of their material, she said.

Current employees of the Career and Transfer Information Center will also be reassigned to the Welcome Center, Hall said.

“All questions will either be answered, or we will find out who can help, and we will tenaciously stick with the student until they are ready for the next step. We understand that our processes can be confusing for new students, especially when you have to go from one office to another without really knowing why or who you are supposed to see and what you’re supposed to ask,” she said.

Cornish said they hope to help up to 20% of the students both new and continuing.

“Our front door is the first place someone lands after deciding to come to CNM and we will make sure that they get off to a good start,” she said.

The first phase of the project is to open a larger, more open center at the current desk near the front door of the Student Services building at Main Campus, she said.

In addition, they will have a smaller walk-up desk located next to the doors of the cafeteria, she said.

They hope to open in late spring of 2014, Cornish said. Another service that the Career and Transfer

Information Center offered was career presentations, Hall said.

Faculty members often set up career presentations in the center, but they could not accommodate a whole classroom in the space because there were not enough computers, she said.

“I would like to be able to do those presentations but we’ll go directly to faculty members and their class-rooms or to a computer lab in the Academic Building, so that we’ll be better able to serve faculty members and students,” she said.

They are also looking at making the information currently only available in the Career and Transfer Information Center available in every computer publicly available for students, she said.

By not having students come to one location to take a career assessment they actually increase the students’ ability to get career and transfer information, she said.

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Open Chemistry Study Sessions

The weekly study session for any chemistry subject. Meet people and get your homework done at the same time! We always have free coffee and snacks.Saturdays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.Main Campus JS Hall, Room 303Contact Tim Kimberley Landry at [email protected] for more information

The Executive Council of Students

The Executive Council of Students (ECOS) is looking for new students to join the CNM student government this semester. Students must have a minimum GPA of 2.5, be enrolled for at least 3 credit hours, have a letter of recommendation, and be willing to be an active student in the CNM community. For more information or to apply to ECOS students can pick up an application in the Student Services building in room 201, student life office of Main campus.

Join Physics League

The CNM Physics League is a chartered student organization with a goal of supporting physics students.Physics league meets every Saturday in JS301 at Main Campus from 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. with the Math League.Physic League Officers:President- Chris Bryer at [email protected] Bobi Drummond at [email protected]

CNM Shooting Club

The CNM Shooting Club is accepting new members and has openings for board members. If you are interested please contact the Faculty Advisor of the Club, Dr. Lisa M. Orick-Martinez at [email protected] or 224-4000 X50062

Student ClubsTim Burton Film Festival

The KiMo Theater is hosting the Tim Burton Film Festival. Thursday, January 29 and 30.Sweeney Todd- The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will play at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Thursday 29.Dark Shadows will play at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on Friday 30.Tickets are $6-$8 for ages 16 and up for Sweeny Todd and 13 and up for Dark Shadows.Go to kimotickets.com for more informaition.

Lunar Observing

View the moon close up through the observatory telescope, and learn about its features, history and future of its exploration. at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science on January 26 at 7 p.m.Tickets are Free for all ages.Go to http://nmnaturalhistory.org/ for more information.

Comedy?

High energy, fast-moving and hilarious, Comedy? is Albuquerque’s alternative comedy troupe.at the Box Performance Space and Improv Theatre (100 Gold Ave SWSuite 112 B) January 23 and January 30 from 10:30 p.m.- 11:45 p.m.Tickets are $6 for all ages .

La Resolana: Honoring Katrina K. Guarascio and Free Expression

See Guarascio speak and read in person, along with many of Albuquerque’s top poets, writers and musicians as part of La Resolana, an eclectic literary event, at the South Broadway Cultural Center (1025 Broadway SE) on Janaury 21.Tickets are Free for all ages.Go to cabq.gov/sbcc for more information.

EventsFree Bus and Parking Passes

Current students qualify for a free general parking pass and AbqRide bus pass.Name, schedule, and student ID number are required. Main Campus, SSC111, Monday-Friday 8am-5pmMontoya Campus, TW207, or Westside Campus, WSII-104, 8:00am-12:30pm/1:30pm-5:00pmThe South Valley Campus (Admissions Office) and Advanced Technology Center (South Lobby reception desk) can also provide the bus pass to the CNM community.For a general parking pass, vehicle and drivers license information must be provided. To register your vehicle, log in to myCNM and follow links from the “transportation” section. The passes can then be obtained at the Main campus Student Activities Office.

CNM Mobile

CNM has launched a new mobile app that will help provide quick and easy access to many of the schools resources, including the course catalog and schedule of classes, maps, libraires and more.Download the app from the iTunes store or Google Play Store.

Student CNM Learn Assistance Lab

Drop-in for hands-on assistance navigating your online, hybrid, or web-enhanced course.Main Campus, SRC room 103, January 20 at 9 a.m., January 21 at 2:30 p.m. and January 26 at 1 p.m.Contact CNM Contact Center at 224-3000 or [email protected]

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