Advising
Advising sessions offered Monday - Thursday are available in person or via Zoom. A Zoom appointment is set up for all students, but if you prefer an in-person appointment just come to the office.
On Fridays, ONLY ZOOM is available as the physical office is closed. You will receive Zoom appointment information within a day or two after scheduling the appointment.
Available Advisors
Mieke (Mee-kah) Karth
Mieke Karth is an international student from South Africa. Schedule an appointment with her if you have questions about specific semester/year as well as faculty-led programs. She is studying a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Psychology with a minor in business. In high school, she attended a student exchange program through the agency FSA in Germany and went to school in Munich for a month as well as travelling to France for a weekend. Mieke continued her love for travel after high school by becoming a live-in aupair in the US for a year, caring for families in New York and Florida while still traveling the US in her spare time. Mieke has visited multiple states including New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio and Nevada. She has now been in the state of Michigan for 8 years and is in her senior year of her bachelor's program and has hopes of pursuing a master's degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology.
Kristen Krug-Shaffer
Kristen is the manager of program development for Academic Travel Programs. Schedule an appointment with her if you have questions about specific semester/year as well as faculty-led programs. Kristen has served as a faculty-led program manager for study abroad and US travel programs. She has traveled to Argentina, Bahamas, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, England, France, Iceland, Italy, Japan (including Okinawa), Mexico, Puerto Rico, and South Korea.