THE LOWERING OF HIGHER EDUCATION CONTINUES.

At the house organ for all wokeness, all the time, that's not how they spin it.  "A new tool kit that launches today aims to help college instructors revise their syllabi to include more supportive language and resources, in an effort to put students at ease and create a more welcoming learning environment."  The usual jargon with the usual obfuscations, of course.  There's no reason to think of first-generation students or returning adults or all the rest of the "nontraditional" rubric as somehow less well-prepared.  Unless, of course, you're slinging the woke buzzwords at Inside Higher Ed.  "The instructors were shown research from the past decade showing that establishing supportive learning environments is particularly important for structurally disadvantaged students, including Black, Latinx, first-generation and transfer students, as well as Pell Grant recipients. With that research in mind, the instructors were invited to revise their syllabi and come back in a week to share them."  It gets more cloying from there.

Whether adding even more verbiage helping students navigate the therapeutic bureaucracy to what once was a course outline will do any good remains to be seen.