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EXPRESS ADVISING HOURS (Spring 2025 Semester)
Express drop-in advising appointments are available throughout the semester in room 328 South Case Hall. General hours are posted below but real-time updates to the schedule are available online.

Weekly, beginning Jan. 21:

  • Monday: 12:30 to 4 p.m.
  • Tuesday: 12:30 to 4 p.m.
  • Wednesday: 12:30 to 4 p.m.
  • Thursday: 12:30 to 4 p.m.
  • Friday: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Things that are typically appropriate for express advising:

  • quick current semester schedule or enrollment questions
  • questions about transfer or test credit on your record
  • urgent or time-sensitive issues, or if an advisor has suggested that you use express advising
  • help connecting with another office or person at MSU (referral)
  • issues that do not require you to connect with a specific person

MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
JMC Staff Advisors offer scheduled appointments both in-person and via Zoom.

For meetings with Assistant Dean Jeff Judge, contact Kristie Hess at 517-353-6754 or email hessk1@msu.edu.  

For meetings with Emelia Hammond, Lauren Michalak, or Jahshua Smith, please use the MSU Student Information System to schedule. To do so, follow the instructions below. 

  • After logging in, navigate to the “Academic Progress” tile on your homepage 
  • Select “Advising/Tutoring Appointments” from the left navigation 
  • Complete the required fields and review appointment information 
  • Select “Book It!” to book your appointment – you and your adviser will receive a calendar invite for your MSU Outlook email calendar 

Note: Lindsay Snyder & Abubakar Idris will start to offer some scheduled appointments via SIS, instead of only offering drop-in advising as we have done for the last year. Scheduled meetings are a better way to assist students looking to do long-term planning or address issues which are not appropriate for a quick drop-in style meeting.

Things that typically warrant a scheduled appointment:

  • designing a graduation plan or anything related to future semesters
  • major/minor exploration
  • preparation or signing of ROTC forms
  • conversations about long-term goals, career interests, graduate/law school
  • follow-up from an express appointment
  • developing a relationship with your advisor – this takes time and effort from both student and advisor!

If you have a previously scheduled meeting that you no longer want or need, please reach out to cancel or reschedule so that we can offer that appointment to other students.

ZOOM MEETINGS
To join a meeting scheduled to take place via zoom, use the link and password posted by the adviser in the JMC Zoom Directory.

Please continue to monitor your email and jmc.msu.edu/advising for updates. As always, if you have questions or concerns, please reach out. 

Jeff Judge: judgej@msu.edu  
Kristie Hess: hessk1@msu.edu
Emelia Hammond: ehammond@msu.edu
Abubakar Idris: abubaka4@msu.edu
Lauren Michalak: michal34@msu.edu
Jahshua Smith: smithjah@msu.edu  
Lindsay Snyder: thornh12@msu.edu 

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