Dr. Jake Greenberg, University College

Name:

Dr. Jake Greenberg

Title:

Lecturer III

Department:

University College

Describe your research in about 200 words.

I am broadly interested in equity, student retention, and graduation rates, and what factors impact these most. My background is in the STEM field and after teaching upper-level chemistry courses for several years, I was seeing the same student populations time and time again. I am passionate about education, and I strongly feel that all students should be given the chance to earn the education they desire. I shifted my academic focus to first-year students and took on this Lecturer III position in University College to begin to understand the factors that keep a student coming back to UNM and continuing their educational journey. My research team is currently researching how a trauma-informed curriculum impacts student pass rates in foundational math, the impact of “Intro to UNM” on student retention and persistence rates, and factors that contribute to the graduation rates of the non-traditional and international student populations. We are very interested in determining which student populations are we serving best and determining what actions can be taken to mitigate which populations we could be serving better.

What’s the most interesting thing you have learned from a student?

I have unfortunately learned of many first-hand accounts of how disappointing the K-12 education system is here in NM and broadly the US.