Tatum Tricarico didn't know she'd need to recruit a professor to help her get the accommodations she needed as a functionally blind student. Sammie Zenoz didn't know she could get scholarships that ...

For first-generation students, the hidden curriculum—the unstated norms, policies and expectations students need to know in higher education—can be a barrier to participating in high-impact practices, ...

I like the term “hidden curriculum” a lot. It typically refers to the unspoken expectations in a given field that new entrants are expected to know, even if they were never formally taught. Someone ...

What is the Hidden Curriculum and Who Does it Affect? Hidden curriculums seem nefarious don’t they? If movies or pop culture have taught us anything, it’s the lesson that if you’re hiding something, ...

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 ...

As a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, Jessica McCrory Calarco knew that after she got her degree, she wanted an academic job. But she didn’t know how to get there. She and her fellow ...

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 ...

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 ...

Narrative Matters readers might remember Joshua Liao’s moving essay about the dangers of the Hidden Curriculum. Liao, a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, wrote about the consequences ...

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 ...