Olufemi “Femi” Ogundele is the Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Enrollment Management and Undergraduate Admissions at UC Berkeley. With extensive experience in enrollment management and diversity outreach, Femi brings deep expertise in building equitable pathways to higher education and advancing student diversity initiatives.
Previously, he held leadership roles at Stanford University and Cornell University, where he developed outreach and onboarding processes that significantly increased student diversity. At Berkeley, he oversees Undergraduate Admissions, Financial Aid, the Registrar’s Office, the Center for Educational Partnerships, and the Visitor’s Center, and his initiatives have produced the most ethnically and geographically diverse incoming classes in three decades. He has also expanded international outreach, particularly throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Femi holds a BA from a U.S. institution and is currently a doctoral student in UC Berkeley's Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) program. A first-generation Nigerian American from Corning, New York, his research focuses on how minoritized students, their school environments, and the college admissions process influence racial equity in higher education.
