Undergraduate Academic and Student Affairs
The College of Natural Science Undergraduate Academic and Student Affairs office is a resource for NatSci students. If you have questions about College and University programs, college requirements, academic policies and procedures, we encourage you to contact us. (Contact information is below.)
We are here to answer your questions or direct you to the appropriate resources! Some areas we can help with include:
- Major changes
- Dean’s Drop (dropping a course after the middle of a semester)
- Withdrawals (dropping all of the semester courses for which you are currently enrolled)
- Medical Withdrawals
- Grief absence
- Appeal academic actions such as recess or dismissal
- Other actions requiring college-level approval
- permission to enroll in more than 20 credits during a semester
- permission to exceed 20 repeat credits
- General questions
- Three exam letters (when you have 3 or more final exams on one day)
Contact information for the Undergraduate Academic and Student Affairs Office Staff
106 Natural Science
(517) 355-4470
- Heidi Purdy, Assistant Dean for Academic and Student Affairs
- Dawn Therrian-Taylor, Office Assistant
- Abbey Leary, Office Assistant
- Sarah Whitaker, Director of Experiential Learning
- Danielle Flores Lopez, Director of Academic Advising & Student Success Initiatives
- Janae Lawler, Director of Academic Advising & Strategic Initiatives