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Devon Keen

Assistant Dean for Organizational Culture and Community Email: [email protected] Phone: 734/936-2188
Office: School of Information/4345 North Quad Staff Unit: Organizational Culture and Community News About Devon Keen

Biography

Devon Keen serves as the Assistant Dean for Organizational Culture and Community at the University of Michigan School of Information. Keen provides leadership for UMSI's Office of Organizational Culture and Community, and founded the UMSI Community College Summer Institute (CCSI) in 2017. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and a graduate degree from the Center for the Study of Higher and Post-secondary Education at the University of Michigan. Keen specialized in higher education management and organizations with a diversity and social justice lens and brings over 20 years of experience at the university, where she has been committed to creating access and driving equity initiatives in education. 

Prior to joining UMSI, she served as Assistant Director at the U-M African Studies Center where she co-developed the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars Program, fostering international collaboration. She is an honored recipient of the Washtenaw Community College Equity in Action award and a former CEW+ Jean W. Campbell scholar.

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News about Devon Keen

A graphic with the text "Announcing: 2024 UMSI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Awards," the UMSI logo, and headshots of Pa Lor, James Reitz, Gabriela Marcu, Latitude Brown, Denny Starks and Krista Dunger
UMSI announces 2024 DEI Awards recipients

The annual awards recognize students, staff and faculty who have shown an action-oriented commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion at UMSI.

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“Detroit JCS Podcast. How CCSI helps bring new students to information studies. Devon Keen, Director of Inclusion, Equity and Outreach. Sandra Lopez, DEI Outreach Coordinator. UMSI.”
Dismantling barriers for transfer students at UMSI

UMSI Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office staff members Devon Keen and Sandra Lopez discuss the ways that the school’s Community College Summer Institute empowers students to make confident decisions about transferring.

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