Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Miya Hayes as the new Associate Director of Campus Partnerships & Engagement at UC Berkeley. Miya is a current Berkeley employee with extensive experience in college access in California, as well as a deep commitment to increasing diversity at the post-secondary level, primarily with African American and Latinx students. Miya will start her new interim position on October 1, 2020, and will report directly to Olufemi “Femi” Ogundele, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Marsha Jaeger, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Educational Partnerships in the Division of Equity & Inclusion.
In her new role, Miya will work closely with cross-campus partners, primarily strengthening partnerships and collaboration between the Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions (OUA), as well as Centers for Educational Equity & Excellence (Ce3), to further develop responsive programming to increase applications to Berkeley from underrepresented students. She will also serve as a campus expert for the recruitment of UC-qualified students from underrepresented populations and assist with data collection and fundraising, yield, and policy work to support those students. Funded by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, this position is a great example of collaboration between many campus entities, including the Divisions of Equity & Inclusion and Student Affairs, academic departments, other campus and community organizations.
Miya joins us from the Center for Educational Partnerships (CEP) at Berkeley, where she has worked for the last 20 years, most recently as Deputy Director and Director of Strategic Initiatives & P-20 Partnerships. At CEP, Miya has honed her expertise in working with schools and districts (locally and across the state) in developing, promoting, and sustaining college-going culture to support all students in their post-secondary choices. Her expertise includes curriculum and course development for A-G approval, and teacher/counselor training. Much of the district partnership work has focused on high-level strategy development for systemic implementation of increasing college access and academic achievement in Oakland and West Contra Costa Unified School Districts. In addition, Miya worked with a small CEP team on the integration of asset-based college-going curriculum into parent programming in the Mission District of San Francisco, supporting the development of a cadre of Latinx Spanish-speaking parent experts through materials translation and train-the-trainer workshops.
Here at Berkeley, Miya serves as Co-Chair of the African American Initiative subcommittee on Recruitment & Yield, is an E&I representative on the Student Experience and Diversity fundraising team, and a liaison with Berkeley 2020 (a four-way collaboration between the campus, Berkeley City College, the City of Berkeley, and Berkeley Unified School District focused on educational equity). Miya was also deeply involved in the Equity & Inclusion Admissions Advisory Committee and has led numerous internal CEP Strategic Initiatives, including Cultural Fluency, Research, Data & Assessment, and CEP Alumni Engagement.
Prior to her work with CEP, Miya was a bilingual teacher in rural Texas as an early corps member of Teach for America. She also worked with teachers and cybrarians on primary source material integration into daily instructional practice. Miya is a UC Berkeley graduate -- she received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish -- and holds a master’s degree in Education, with a focus on language acquisition and instructional technology, from Stanford University.
Please join us in welcoming Miya to her new role at Berkeley.
Sincerely,
Stephen C. Sutton, Ed.D.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Oscar Dubón, Jr.
Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion