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Faculty Partnership

Thank you for your interest in implementing Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) in your course! We wanted to share a few ways faculty members can support the PASS Program and PASS Leaders in their courses.

Class Attendance: PASS Leaders will have the opportunity to attend class each time it meets to stay up to date with class material to best support students in their study sessions. PASS Leader supervisors may also attend some class sessions with the PASS Leader to help evaluate the Leader in their PASS sessions. PASS Leaders’ level of involvement during class time will be at faculty members’ discretion and will be determined with the PASS Leader.

Roster & Program Evaluation: We ask that faculty members make their current student roster for their PASS section available to PASS supervisors, along with exam and/or major project grades, as a means of determining whether students attending PASS sessions are performing at a higher level than those not attending. For final evaluation purposes, we will also request final course grades at the end of the term from either faculty members or the Office of the Registrar. 

• Sharing student information for the PASS Program is within compliance of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for the purposes of improving instruction. Please see this resource for additional information. 
• Faculty members will not be given the names of students who attend PASS sessions to preserve students’ anonymity in seeking this support, which is one of the tenets of the PASS model. However, we can provide anonymous feedback from PASS participants at your request. 

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