For Supervisors
This page is designed to be a full resource guide to PULSE Supervisors. It is our hope the content herein includes the forms, dates, and resources you might need to fulfill your role as a PULSE Supervisor.
Look out for the following items:
- PULSE Calendar for Supervisors: Contains all dates pertinent to PULSE student schedules, the PULSE Placement Process, and deadlines.
- PULSE Paperwork for Supervisors:Â Here you can find the Learning Work Agreement, Semester Evaluations, Supervisor Manual, and other resources.
Supervisor Calendar
Student Calendar
Frequently Asked Questions
How and when should I inform the students I’d like to make offers to?
<p>If you would like to offer spots to the students who have already toured your organization, and gone through any necessary application steps, you can choose to e-mail the students or call them. You must notify all students who have toured/applied to work with your organization of your decision by September 17th, 2025. You can choose to extend an offer to a student, or place them on a waitlist, or determine that they may not be the best fit, but they must be notified by this date. You can choose to accept students before this date, however, we ask that you do not make any acceptances before all interested students have finished touring your organization.<br>
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How do I decide which students will be serving at my organization?
<p>Our supervisors use a variety of different methods to select which students they would like to work with. Some supervisors hold group or individual interviews during the times that students are touring their organization. Many supervisors will ask our students to fill out an application, to e-mail a small paragraph dictating their continued interest after the tour, or to fill out necessary forms, like the CORI form. Some supervisors will choose to offer every student that tours the opportunity to serve at their organization. How you decide to choose students is largely up to you, and can be discussed with your PULSE Council member. Be sure to inform your council member if students must fill out applications before the tour, or if you would like the students to partake in an interview.<br />
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How do I select Spring Elective students?
<p>We will have students enrolled in PULSE elective courses in the spring semester, and these students will be seeking a placement. Your PULSE council member will have asked you at the beginning of September if you are open to accepting one semester elective students in the spring semester, but the PULSE office will confirm your interest around November. We will aim to transition these students to placement schedules as quickly as possible. To do so, we will be distributing a list of available PULSE community partners with supervisor contact information to those registered in a spring semester PULSE elective. We will encourage students to contact you directly, indicating their interest and available schedule.<br>
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How does student scheduling work for the Spring Semester?
<p>When scheduling students for their shifts during the Fall Placement Process, you may expect students to commit to the shifts set at that time for the entire year. We instruct students to assume that their schedule is for the entire year, unless you, their PULSE supervisor, indicate otherwise. If the student's schedule demands a change to the placement schedule, (there are many legitimate circumstances in which this will be the case), we encourage him/her to discuss this with you before the end of fall semester, to explore his/her options. We expect that any changes will be made only if they are mutually beneficial.<br />
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How is the PULSE Paperwork different for Elective Students?
<p>The PULSE office will provide a Learning Work Agreement and Semester Evaluation that is specific to elective students. It is the student's responsibility to bring the appropriate LWA form to their supervisor, and to submit the forms to the PULSE Office by the appropriate deadline. We have designed these alternate forms to make your job easier - they (hopefully) require less work from you, but the same investment of the student. Please make use of the appropriate form. Please also note that the evaluation form can only be submitted by the supervisor.<br />
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How is the service requirement different for elective students?
<p>PULSE Elective Students usually serve approximately one 4-hour shift per week (not counting travel time), though some students may be able to serve the full 8 hours a week. It is the student's responsibility to be upfront about identifying themselves as an 'elective student.<br />
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How will we confirm which students will be serving at our organization?
<p>Our students may receive offers from more than one organization. Therefore, the student must choose which organization they would like to serve with once they receive those offers. Our students are required to inform you of their decisions by September 18th, 2025. If a student you have made an offer to has decided to work with another organization, you may offer their spot to a student on your waiting list. However, you will hear from all of the students you have made an offer to by 1pm on September 18th.<br>
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Once we know who will be serving at our organization, what are the next steps we should take?
<p>Once you have confirmed which students will be serving with your organization, or as you are accepting students, you should work alongside the student to decide when they will be serving. Most of our students will serve two, four hour shifts on separate days. It may be prudent to ask students for their class and extracurricular schedule up front in order to find a time that works for both the organization’s schedule, as well as the student’s.<br />
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The Learning Work Agreement is due WHERE and WHEN?
<p>It is the STUDENT’S responsibility to submit the document on-time, however, we hope that you will set up individual meetings with your students to review the LWA that are best for your schedule in advance of this date. Each student will be introduced to the LWA and receive instructions from their PULSE Council Member. The PULSE office will also communicate LWA instructions to supervisors and students in a timely manner.<br />
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