Academic Chutes & Ladders
The Hidden Curriculum That Makes or Breaks Academic Careers
Academic Chutes & Ladders
The Hidden Curriculum That Makes or Breaks Academic Careers
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Description
Why do some people seem to effortlessly succeed in college, graduate school, or as faculty-and why do many others struggle? The answer to this can be found in a phenomenon called the “hidden curriculum,” the unwritten set of rules of the game in academia that can determine who finds and climbs the ladders, and who falls through the chutes. Familiarity with the “hidden curriculum” and how to navigate it is part of the academic safety net that increases resilience, persistence to matriculation, and success in academia-and afterward-at all levels. If academia is a game, the “hidden curriculum” is the secret map showing where the pitfalls are and how to avoid them. It shows where the opportunities are and how to leverage them to advance to the next level.
Academic Chutes & Ladders: The Hidden Curriculum that Makes or Breaks Academic Careers is both an action plan and a rallying cry; it exposes the academic chutes and ladders, and outlines the systemic changes needed to best serve all scholars and to support institutional missions in a way that makes academic success-whether defined as matriculation and degree attainment, tenure and promotion, or other career achievement milestones-more accessible for everyone.
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Table of Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction
Section 1 Square One-Starting the Game (or Entering the Academic Pipeline)
Undergraduate Education
1 Attaining and Sustaining Mentorship during College
Clare R. Brock and Emily M. Farris
2 The Chutes and Ladders in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Jamie Scalera Elliott, Srobana Bhattacharya, Alison M. Clifton, Sean P.
Giovanello, and Kirsten L. Taylor
3 FAFSAs, EFCs, and COAs, Oh My: Navigating the Realm of Student Financial Aid
C. Kelsey Ryan
Graduate Students
4 From First-Generation College Graduate to PhD Student: How to Transition Successfully
Elizabeth I. Dorssom
5 Live Long and Suffer: The Plight of the Grad Student
Jennifer H. Tatara
6 Ritual Anxieties: Living with and Working through Anxiety in Academia
Rae Summers-Thompson and William Duffy
7 The Developmental Dissertation
Leanne C. Powner
The Job Market
8 Navigating the Affective Component of the Academic Job Search in a Precarious Market
Amy Collins and Kaity Prieto
9 Navigating the “Hidden Curriculum” as an International Scholar
Irmak Yazici
10 Scaling the Chute: Academic Job Hunting while Mothering
Christine I. Kugelmann
Section 2 Ascending the Ladders and Rising through the Ranks
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
11 The Perpetual Impostor
Amy Cooter
12 Overcoming the Research Funding Barrier: Undergraduate Research as an Opportunity for Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Holley E. Hansen
13 A Placeholder for Paused Progress
The Editors
14 On the Outside, Looking In: Pathways to Success for Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Karen Huxtable-Jester and Paul F. Diehl
Junior Tenure Track Faculty
15 Struggling to Find Purpose in the Paperwork: USCIS Petitions, Job Applications, and Tenure Files
Kelly Bauer
16 Developing an Intentional Mentor Network
Zora M. Wolfe
17 From the Top: Chairs' Role in Developing Faculty Success
Diana K. Ivy, Shane A. Gleason, and Kelly M. Miller
Tenure and Promotion
18 The Chutes and Ladders of Service at a Small Liberal Arts College
Patrick Homan
19 Doing Away with “The Way We Do Things around Here”: Clarity and Equity in Tenure and Promotion Rashna Wadia Richards
Service, Teaching, and Research
20 Tackling the Role of Department Chair while Living with an Invisible Chronic Illness
Gretchen Peterson
21 Musical Chairs: Service, the Curse of Competence, and Delayed Promotion
Carrie Liu Currier
22 Who's Going to Teach It? Equitable Distribution of Course Development Demands
Tara Parsons
Senior Faculty
23 Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Secondary Trauma: Self-Care in Higher Education
Tami Micsky
24 So, You're Thinking about Moving into Academic Administration (aka the Dark Side)?
Mark A. Boyer
25 From Faculty to Administrator Shannon
Lindsey Blanton
Section 3 Historically Excluded Groups
International Scholars
26 Implicit and Explicit Bias and the “Rising Star” Culture
Claudio A. Villalobos Dintrans
27 The Academic and Social Challenges African International Students Face inthe United States
Lillie Padilla
28 Replacing Chutes with Ladders: Creating Authentic Online Environments Inclusive of International Doctoral Students
Crystal Machado, Farheen Mahmood, Ronald Nyanzi, and Lizoon Nahar
LGBTQIA+ Scholars
29 Teaching Political Science while Queer: When Your Identity Is Political
Austin Schutz
30 Breaking the Glass Closet: Being a Black Queer Woman in Academia
Kelly Williams
BIPOC Scholars
31 When Work Is Personal: Closeness to Research and Its Effect on Well-Being and Productivity
Nasir Almasri and Amirah E. Aly
32 “What's the 411?”: The Beauties and Burdens BIPOC Women ScholarsHave Gleaned through Unveiling the Hidden Curricula within the Ivory Tower
Crystal L. White, LaSheba W. Hilliard, Gina English Tillis, and Tera Warfield
First-Generation Scholars
33 Being in Limbo as a Working-Class Academic
Daniel J. Mallinson
34 Academic Border Crossings: Ladders for First-Generation Student
Success
T. Mark Montoya
Section 4 Invisible Workloads
Women+ Scholars
35 Experiences of a Former Teen Parent Working in Academia
Rachel Blume
36 Academic Motherhood: Holistic Motherscholars Lifting Each Other Up the
Ladders
Lynn Bielski, Emily T. Cripe, Katharina A. Azim, Stacey H. Bender,
Maggie Campbell-Obaid, Kathryn E. Frazier, Janet Garcia-Hallett, Jennifer
H. Greene-Rooks, Amanda Harmon, N. A. Heller, Colleen C. Myles-Baltzly,
Summer Melody Pennell, Ivanna Richardson, and Alexandra K. Frazer
37 Chutes and Ladders in the Rearview Mirror May Be Less Distinct Than They Initially Appeared
Jessica Salvatore
Caregiver Scholars
38 Caregiving and Academia without a Filter: When a Pandemic Made Invisible Dependents Visible Karen Sobel and Melissa Bowles-Terry
39 Navigating Hopeful and Heartbreaking Caregiving in Academia
Courtney B. Peters
40 The Bittersweet Fruits of Perseverance
Lesley Thornton-Cronin
Scholars with Disabilities
41 On-Campus Interviews: The Invisible Chutes and Missed Ladders for
Disabled Academics
Melanie R. Savelli
42 OCD Meets PhD: The Fight to Thrive in Academia with an Invisible
Illness
Maya Novak-Herzog
43 Disabilities and the Hidden Curriculum
Eun A Jo, Sally Friedman, and Alan Babcock
44 It Took My Village: How the Pandemic Worsened Decades of Social
Isolation and Increased Loneliness
Jarod Giger
Conclusion
References
Index
Product details
| Published | Jul 09 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 360 |
| ISBN | 9798765164280 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 3 b/w figures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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