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The Street Food Institute (SFI) has partnered with CNM and RFK charter school to offer duel credit classes to high school students who are interested in the entrepreneurial food service industry, said lead instructor and chef of the SFI, Julian Griego. Students and community members will get the opportunity to learn about the food service industry and what it takes to start a successful small business, he said. “It’s been a pretty exciting semester to be able to offer the duel credit class here,” he said. The program offers different types of business training but the primary focus is on mobile food service which is the food truck industry, Griego said. Market vending is another type of business training that is offered through the program, the class goal is to help students sell their food products at local farmer’s markets or the rail yard markets, Griego said. Catering and wholesale business trainings are also part of the business training that can be offered to students who are interested in either catering at various events or to those who want to have their food products packaged for wholesale distribution, he said. SFI is an entrepreneur-focused culinary program dedicated to inspiring the success of small, local businesses in New Mexico. SFI supports the development of small business by growing the state’s local food economy and developing strong future business leaders. SFI trains its emerging business leaders to employ sustainable business practices that support local farmers, entrepreneurs, and families. SFI partnered with CNM almost three years ago to offer bilingual classes to students and community members who were interested in the food service and entrepreneurial industry, he said. The first year of the partnership the program only had one food truck and the classes were only available at CNM, he said. The SFI then partnered with Southwest Educational Partners for Training to develop a program that would allow community members to have access to the program. “We wanted to be able to reach low income communities as well as bilingual and immigrant populations,” Griego said.
All the classes offered through the SFI are taught in both English and Spanish. The classes with the program are offered at the South Valley Economic Development Center (SVEC) which is located at 318 Isleta Blvd SW, in Albuquerque and even thought this is the central location for the duel credit program the classes that are offered are opened to all students, he said. “The idea is that if there is a student who wants to start a food service business like a food truck then they can come and take these four classes at the SVEC and will have most of the knowledge they need to start their own business,” he said. In addition to that, students can then transfer to CNM main campus to finish their culinary arts degree if that is what they want to do, he said. Students will be taught everything from how to properly hold a knife and proper sanitation to business planning and recipe tests, he said. The SVEC is part of CNM and their mission is to provide resources for economic development for small businesses’ growth to help build the local economy, he said. “There is a kitchen at the SVEC that we call the mixing bowl and it is a community kitchen that also acts like a food service business hub so the community can come in and become a member of this kitchen to start the process of starting their businesses,” Griego said. The program is four courses, which is one semester, and the classes are generally offered in the evening times so that students who work or attend other classes in the morning and afternoon can make it, he said. Students follow the exact same process for enrolling in these classes as they would with any other CNM class, he said. “You gain the theory, knowledge, and the real life experience of this extremely popular industry,” he said. Students have the opportunity to work on the SFI Food Truck and get real life experience in what it means to run, work, and operate a food truck, he said. At the end of the program there is an internship that is offered to students that will help them to build their resume by actually receiving work experience “The classes cover every topic from a business plan to an operational plan to get your health permit, financing, funding the business, the food product and how it works out in the market,
and we talk about marketing, cost analysis and finances,” he said. The mobile food operations course is focused primarily on food trucks, so in that students develop the operational plan for their permit, he said. “In the course they will develop their own food items and do recipe tests every few weeks where they bring in their ideas for their food concept and we test their items and taste them to critique them and talk about the cost analysis behind the recipes,” Griego said. SFI Students taking the course, Monica Gutierrez and Adrian Baca, said they originally took the courses for something to do together as a couple but they are now thinking of opening a small family business that will probably feature a New Mexican fusion cuisine. Another SFI student, Elfigo Castillo said that he has been working on his food truck concept for a while and when he was recently laid off work, his wife informed him of the courses at CNM and he decided to enroll. “This is like a blessing that fell in my lap,” Castillo said. Castillo said that along with being enrolled in the classes there is free help from the small business bureau on getting a plan and funding for a business. “This program has really been a confidence booster,” he said. For students who are less interested in starting a food truck, CNM also offers a retail baking operations course and a catering course, Griego said. “These business topics apply to all types of business,” Griego said. If students or community members are interested in the food service industry but have no experience they can take entry level courses that will teach the basics to cooking, Griego said. Currently students are offered a certificate from the SFI after they finish the four course program but they are working with CNM to hopefully offer a certificate from the CNM culinary department in the future. For more information about the classes offered please set up an appointment with an academic advisor by calling (505) 224-4355.
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On Tap! CNM to Offer Brewery Classes By Edgar Gonzalez Staff Reporter
The breweries of New Mexico have expressed an interest in having a pool of well trained people that they can hire from since the brewing industry seems to be in a boom right now, said full time CNM Brewing instructor Nick Jones. And CNM has answered that call with the courses it will be offering in brewing for students in the school of Business and Information Technology, he said. The focus is on more of the practical aspect like how the equipment works and how to safely operate these machines in breweries which are basically large manufacturing plants, he said. The training as it is set out right now will take place in local breweries here in Albuquerque and perhaps other places in New Mexico given that CNM does not have its own brewing facility, he said. CNM is not sure which breweries will take part in the program given that it is a very long process and CNM still is trying to figure out what will be the demand of the students; how long they will have to shut down their brewery, type of insurance students need, and other details, Jones said. The long term plan is for CNM to construct their own brewing facility where students can get training in commercial brewing, he said. “CNM will be installing exactly the same equipment that you would find in a commercial brewery so that we can teach and train our students on the appropriate equipment in order to send them out into the workforce”, he said. These will be very difficult classes which are meant to train people to enter the brewing work force which is not as glamorous as it might seem from the outside because it is a lot of hard work and requires a lot of knowledge, he said. The first classes will be offered in the fall and they will be posted in the fall catalogue, he said. CNM will be offering five classes which are four credit hours each, he said. One of them will be Beer Production and Styles, which will be the introductory class, he said. There will be Brewing Equipment and Maintenance, he said “Drought Systems like drought beers which is a very important subject in my opinion since it gets overlooked a lot,” he said. Then they are going to offer two beer production classes, he said. One which focuses on the sort of hot side of brewing where everything is cooked and the other side which focuses more on the fermentation and packaging like putting it in kegs or cans, he said.
For the first beer production and style there are three prerequisites IRW 0980, Math 0970, and a brewing equipment and maintenance equivalent which can be taken as a co requisite, he said. The drought systems class has the brewing equipment and maintenance class as a pre or co requisite class, he said. For the associates in brewing and beverage management there are some other courses that must be taken such as Biology, Chemistry, Hospitality, Tourism and English. Students will be able to put these classes on their financial aid, he said. Since these classes are co requisites they are offering a brewing certificate of achievement that could theoretically be completed in a single term, Jones said. “This is a very technical field and I would like to emphasize that although we will be tasting beer, this will not be a fun party class,” he said. Students will need textbooks, right now instructors are receiving samples of textbooks for brewing and there will be a committee to decide on the textbook that will be used, he said. Brewing is a food science even though you can get deep into the chemistry and the biology aspect of it, he said. “This is a very serious, challenging and dangerous program so it is extremely important that students take these classes seriously,” he said. There are hot corrosive chemicals that people must handle all the time and machinery which is very dangerous, so this is no joke and students must realize that it is a very serious thing, he said. They will be looking into internships possibilities and the breweries have shown interest but they would have to formalize all of these things, he said. The goal is to have students graduate from this program and be highly desirable to be hired at breweries, Jones said. CNM was asked to fill some industry needs so it was our advisory committee who in response created this program, said Victoria Martinez, academic affairs director for Culinary Arts & Hospitality Management in CNM’s School of Business & Information Technology. For the lab classes which are under development at the moment; there are some special requirements which include standing for the duration of the class and the ability to lift a minimum of 30 pounds, she said. “It is very exciting for our students and I believe it is an excellent opportunity and the breweries are looking forward to our first graduating classes whether it be for the certificate or the degree program,” Martinez said. For the classes that are starting now in the fall those classes are truly in response to preparing students to work in breweries and brew pubs, but they are preparing them for industry, she said.
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CNM participates in AMATYC competition By Edgar Gonzalez Staff Reporter
American Math Association of two year colleges (AMATYC) which is a nationwide organization that sponsors a math competition twice a year, said full time math instructor Judy Lalani. New Mexico Math Association for two year colleges (NMMATYC) sponsors the regional circuit of it and they have in the past had a price for the top scores in the state, she said. Professors from across the country come together in order to write the problems for the test and send them to NMMATYC, she said. CNM tries to host this event twice a year once in the spring and again in the fall around the same time on Fridays since most students are not in class, she said Usually the dates for this event in the fall are in the last week of October or the first week of November, while the dates for the spring are the last week of February or the first week of March, she said. CNM is scheduled to administer the spring test on March 4, 2016 in MS 315 at 12:00 noon, she said. All of the two year schools in the state are able to participate in the exam, she said. CNM has done this every semester for the last 14 years, she said. There are topics in the exam that CNM does not offer, she said. CNM has reserved four rooms for all students who decide they want to participate in the exam, she said. There is a sign in sheet along with a form that says that you do not have a degree and your instructors’ information since some instructors offer extra credit for taking the exam, she said.
The test is a 20 question multiple choice exam, she said. Students get one hour to take the exam which is multiple choice, said Lalani. For the test, students are welcome to use a non-computer algebra system calculator and scratch paper, she said. Given that this test is for two year colleges, the questions on the test go up to but do not include calculus, she said. The test includes Geometry, Number Theory, and Advanced Algebra, she said. Calculus students might have an advantage since they have more experience in calculus problem solving and doing those types of problems, she said. Any person who is registered in CNM courses is welcome to try the exam no matter what the skill level of math the student might be in, she said. This exam has a cash prize so during the test there will be instructors that monitor the students, she said. To be eligible for the prize students cannot have a degree of any kind, she said. The students get a prize of $25 for third place a $50 for second place and $100 for first place, she said. The school receives a certificate showing that their school had the first place winner, she said. The top three students of the school will then face off against the top three students from the other community colleges in New Mexico that are participating, she said.
Behavioral Health Speaker Series
By Whitney Browneller Staff Reporter
CNM is offering Behavioral Health Speaker Series to students, community members and staff, said Student Events and Program Manager Libby Fatta. The CNM/UNM behavioral speaker series started in fall of 2014 and it was a partnership with the UNM department of psychiatry, Fatta said. The goal with the speaker series is to bring various mental health and behavioral health lectures to CNM and to the community and invite people to come to a free mental health lecture, Fatta said. A lot of these lectures have different resources people can use and they are all given by doctors with the UNM department of psychiatry, Fatta said. The doctors are the ones who lead the lectures and we determine what the topics are going to be, she said. “All the lectures are free and available to everyone,” she said. The lectures are held during lunch time to encourage staff and students to come listen to a free lecture while on their lunch break, she said. Most of the doctors will include slides that feature local resources for anyone that may need help with the type of issues that are being discussed or if students know of someone that may need help, Fatta said. The doctors giving the lectures are specialists in the area that they are
giving the lecture on and can usually provide specific resources to those who need additional information, she said. Fatta said that the Behavioral Health Speaker Series will continue and there will likely be lectures in the summer and fall terms. CNM chose to do it every third Thursday of the month during lunch to encourage more people to come to the lectures since it is a consistent time, she said. The next lecture will take place on Thursday March 24 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Main Campus in MS room 102 and will be on Alcohol and Domestic Violence and the research behind it. The speaker of this lecture will be Dr. Brandi Fink with the UNM Department of Psychology. The last lecture of the spring 2016 speaker series will be held on Thursday April 21 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Main Campus in MS room 102 and Dr. Kristina Sowar will be covering the topic of Eating Disorders. “These speaker series are a great way for students to learn more about topics related to their classes or their future careers,” Fatta said. If students need any information about the lectures, please email Libby Fatta at efatta@cnm.edu.