In a recent article posted to Inside Higher Ed Maria Carrasco features a new resource that provides instructors and professors set of tools one can use to create syllabi that are more inclusive and supportive. The resource featured is The First Day Toolkit, which is a free online course developed by The Student Experience project. The course covers matters like: developing a growth mindset in your course design, normalizing challenges, and communicating care to your students.

While late-April is not the ideal time to review and revise syllabi for the upcoming academic year, we invite you to bookmark this resource so that you can return to it when the timing is right. If you decided to embark on a syllabus revision project and you would like to partner with someone in the process, please let us in the Studio know.

The Student Experience Project is a collaborative of university leaders, faculty, researchers and national education organizations committed to innovative, research-based practices to increase degree attainment by building equitable learning environments and fostering a sense of belonging on campus.