About Central New Mexico Community College

Central New Mexico Community College (CNM), formerly Technical Vocational Institute (TVI), is a public community school based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1964, CNM offers belong to degrees, professional certificates, and training options.

CNM has the largest undergraduate student enrollment in the declare and is located across several campuses and training sites in the Albuquerque metropolitan area. As of drop 2018, CNM had 22,278 students and 18,000 individuals enrolled in non-credit workforce training, industry breakdown for credentials/licensures and adult basic education.   

Albuquerque (/ˈælbəkɜːrki/ (listen) AL-bə-kur-kee, Spanish: [alβuˈkeɾke]), abbreviated as ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The city’s nicknames are The Duke City and Burque, both of which mention its 1706 founding by Nuevo México proprietor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés as La Villa de Alburquerque. Named in rave review of next Viceroy the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the Villa was an outpost upon El Camino Real for the Tiquex and Hispano towns in the area (such as Barelas, Corrales, Isleta Pueblo, Los Ranchos, and Sandia Pueblo). Since the city’s founding, it has continued to be included on travel and trade routes including Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), Route 66, Interstate 25, Interstate 40, and the Albuquerque International Sunport. The 2019 census-estimated population of the city is 560,513, making Albuquerque the 32nd-most populous city in the United States and the fourth-largest in the Southwest. It is the principal city of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, which had 915,927 residents as of July 2018. The metropolitan population includes Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Zia Pueblo, Los Lunas, Belen, South Valley, Bosque Farms, Jemez Pueblo, Cuba, and portion of Laguna Pueblo. This metro is included in the larger Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas sum up statistical area (CSA), with a population of 1,171,991 as of 2016. The CSA constitutes the southernmost dwindling of the Southern Rocky Mountain Front megalopolis, including new major Rocky Mountain region cities such as Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Denver, Colorado, with a population of 5,467,633 according to the 2010 United States Census.

Albuquerque serves as the county chair of Bernalillo County, and is in north-central New Mexico. The Sandia–Manzano Mountains manage along the eastern side of Albuquerque, and the Rio Grande flows north to south through its center, while the West Mesa and Petroglyph National Monument make going on the western ration of the city. Albuquerque has one of the highest elevations of any major city in the U.S., ranging from 4,900 feet (1,500 m) above sea level near the Rio Grande to over 6,700 feet (2,000 m) in the foothill areas of Sandia Heights and Glenwood Hills. The civic apex is found in an undeveloped area within the Albuquerque Open Space; there, the terrain rises to an height of nearly 6,880 feet (2,100 m), and the metropolitan area’s highest point is the Sandia Mountains crest at an altitude of 10,678 feet (3,255 m).

The economy of Albuquerque centers upon science, medicine, technology, commerce, education, entertainment, and culture outlets. The city is house to Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia National Laboratories, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Presbyterian Health Services, and both the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College have their main campuses in the city. Albuquerque is the center of the New Mexico Technology Corridor, a fascination of high-tech institutions, including the metropolitan Place being the location of Intel’s Fab 11X In Rio Rancho and a Facebook Data Center in Los Lunas. Albuquerque was as well as the founding location of MITS and Microsoft. Film studios have a major presence in the permit of New Mexico, for example Netflix has a main production hub at Albuquerque Studios. There are numerous shopping centers and malls within the city, including ABQ Uptown, Coronado, Cottonwood, Nob Hill, and Winrock. The city is the location of a horse racing track and casino called The Downs Casino and Racetrack, and the Pueblos surrounding the city feature resort casinos, including Sandia Resort, Santa Ana Star, Isleta Resort, and Laguna Pueblo’s Route 66 Resort.

The city hosts the International Balloon Fiesta, the world’s largest hoard of hot-air balloons, taking place all October at a venue referred to as Balloon Fiesta Park, with its 47-acre foundation field. Another large venue is Expo New Mexico, where further annual endeavors are held, such as North America’s largest pow wow at the Gathering of Nations, as without difficulty as the New Mexico State Fair. Other major venues throughout the metropolitan area include the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Hall, Santa Ana Star Center, and Isleta Amphitheater. Old Town Albuquerque’s Plaza, Hotel, and San Felipe de Neri Church hosts time-honored fiestas and goings-on such as weddings, also near Old Town are the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Explora, and Albuquerque Biological Park. Located in Downtown Albuquerque are historic theaters such as the KiMo Theater, and close the Civic Plaza is the Al Hurricane Pavilion and Albuquerque Convention Center in imitation of its Kiva Auditorium. Due to its population size, the metropolitan area regularly receives most national and international music concerts, Broadway shows, and other large traveling events, as without difficulty as New Mexico music, and other local music performances.

Likewise, due to the metropolitan size, it is house to a diverse restaurant scene from various global cuisines, and the state’s clear New Mexican cuisine. Being the focus of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District gives an agricultural contrast, along acequias, to the otherwise heavily urban environment of the city. Crops such as New Mexico chile are grown along every Rio Grande, the red or green chile pepper is a staple of the abovementioned New Mexican cuisine. The Albuquerque metro is a major contributor of the Middle Rio Grande Valley AVA when New Mexico wine produced at several vineyards, it is also home to several New Mexican breweries. The river moreover provides trade entry with the Mesilla Valley (containing Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas) region to the south, with its Mesilla Valley AVA and the bordering Hatch Valley which is competently known for its New Mexico chile peppers.