Evening Hours Help Attract More to CAMT Course 

The course always receives rave reviews, but having to miss daytime work hours can sometimes prevent technicians from enrolling in the NAA Education Institute’s Certificate for Apartment Maintenance Technicians (CAMT) program.

To address such concerns, The Lubbock Apartment Association (LAA) offered the CAMT course from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. this fall, enabling maintenance technicians to still work over half a day onsite before going to class. The feedback on this first-time offering was overwhelmingly positive.

“Prior to the schedule change, we had four students enrolled in the fall course,” says Suzanne Comer, Executive Officer of the LAA. “We moved the class to the evening and 13 more students enrolled right away. It made a huge, huge difference and seems to be a happy compromise for property managers.”

NAAEI President Jeff Lowry, CAPS, Senior Vice President of Multifamily Housing for McDougal Companies, which operates 3,000 units in Texas, sent 10 maintenance employees to the evening course and says the time change was beneficial for both the company and the employees. “Not only were the employees onsite for most of the day, but they also had more of a vested interest in the class now that it was in the evening, on their own time,” he says. “We split the cost of the course with them—let’s split the time commitment, too.”
Comer agrees and says she’s received nothing but positive feedback from the CAMT students, who brought a new sense of dedication to class. Comer says the evening course was so successful that the LAA will again use that time slot with its Certified Apartment Property Supervisor (CAPS) course in January.

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