There •has• been a shift on college campuses, one I suspect is relevant here: expectations of human care from faculty and institutions have increased.
There used to be a much larger tolerance for profs just pushing content at students and letting them struggle. There’s more baseline expectation now that we’ll actually think about whether our pedagogy •works•, and take into account the well-being of our students.
The pandemic massively accelerated that, but it’s a ~20-year trend.