If you drive by CNM’s Rio Rancho campus this week you might see an odd site. Located on the campus are a series of electrical poles sticking 35 feet out of the ground. This week those poles will literally be crawling with electric lineworker apprentices and CNM students using them for valuable hands-on training. The […]
Faces of CNM: Faith Bohannon
Faith will be the first woman to graduate from the Electric Lineworker Pre-Apprentice certificate program and she already has big plans Jul 22, 2020 Faith Bohannon grew up working with her hands. Her dad owns a water well drilling business outside of Grants, New Mexico, and she’s helped with the trucks and wells ever since […]
Electric Lineworker Pre-Apprenticeship Program
CNM Ingenuity, in partnership with the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (NMRECA), is providing hands-on, high-quality training to the inaugural cohort of students in the Lineworker Pre-apprenticeship program. “Around the state the conversation around apprenticeships is growing,” says CNM Ingenuity Program Director Dawnn Moore. “Bringing on a lineworker pre-apprenticeship program that feeds directly into […]