Are you “in the know” or “on the out?” Well, many college students don’t even know where they stand thanks to our friend, the hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum refers to the set of norms and ...

Idalis Villanueva Alarcón (FOE 2022) is an associate professor and associate chair for research and graduate studies in the Department of Engineering Education at the University of Florida.

A recent Bluesky thread about teaching undergraduates the hidden curriculum of college caught my eye. Miriam Posner, an associate professor of information studies at the University of California at ...

In recent years, many colleges and universities have turned to mentoring programs in an attempt to retain underperforming students. Federally supported mentoring programs have been around since the ...

We recently wrote an article for Inside Higher Ed about the challenges of a hidden curriculum that graduate students, especially those from historically excluded groups, must navigate. In that piece, ...

When he was young, Jason Krastein remembers his father, a nephrologist, coming home from the hospital to compile patient notes and pre-chart for the next day before spending time with the family. As a ...

When the word “innovation” gets used on my campus, I often notice panic spreading across my colleagues’ faces. The thought of chalkboards being dismantled and replaced with complicated, high-tech ...

Unspoken rules in schools determine who will succeed and who will struggle in school. Paul Moseley Fort Worth Star-Telegram Education insiders use the term “hidden curriculum” to describe unspoken ...

Editor's Note: This post is a response to Joshua Liao, Eric Thomas, and Sigall Bell's essay, "Speaking Up About The Dangers Of The Hidden Curriculum," published under Narrative Matters in the January ...