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. 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 of diversity, inclusion, and equity 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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Kerry F. Crawford is an associate professor of Political Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She is the author of several books, including Wartime Sexual Violence (2017, Georgetown University Press), Human Security: Theory and Action (2018, Rowman & Littlefield), and The PhD Parenthood Trap (2021, Georgetown University Press). She teaches and researches subjects related to human security, conflict-related sexual violence, United Nations peacekeeping, public opinion on civilian casualties, and gender and bias in the academic profession. Leah Windsor is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis. She also has Faculty Affiliate status with CAESER (Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research) and in the Department of Political Science.

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Introduction

Part I: Square One-Starting the Game

**Undergraduate Education **

1. Attaining and Sustaining Mentorship During College
   Emily Farris and Clare Brock

2. Challenges and Opportunities in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
   Jamie Scalera Elliott, Srobana Bhattacharya, Alison M. Clifton, Sean 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 Successfully Transition
Elizabeth I. Dorssom

5. Live Long and Suffer: The Plight of the Grad Student
   Jennifer Tatara

6. Ritual Anxieties: Living with and Working through Anxiety in Academia
   William Duffy and Rae Summers Thompson

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

Part II: Rising through the Ranks

**Non-Tenure Track Faculty **
11. The Perpetual Imposter
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 Progress
    The Editors

14. On the Outside, Looking In: Pathways to Success for Non-Tenure Track Faculty
    Paul F. Diehl and Karen Huxtable-Jester

**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 Wolfe

17. From the Top: Chairs' Role in Developing Faculty Success
    Shane Gleason, Diana K. Ivy, 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 Blanton

Part III: Historically Excluded Groups

**International Scholars **
26. Implicit and explicit bias and the "rising star" culture
Claudio Villalobos

27. The Academic and Social Challenges Faced by African International Students in the US
    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 scholars have gleaned through unveiling the hidden curricula within the ivory tower.
    Crystal White, LaSheba Hilliard, Gina Tillis, and Tera Warfield

**First-Generation Scholars **
33. Being in Limbo as a Working-Class Academic
Daniel Mallinson

34. Academic Border-Crossings: Ladders for First-Generation Student Success
    T. Mark Montoya

Part IV: 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, & 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 & Academia Without a Filter: When a Pandemic Made Invisible Dependents Visible
Karen Sobel and Melissa Bowles-Terry

39. Navigating Hopeful & Heartbreaking Caregiving in Academia
    Courtney Peters

40. The Bittersweet Fruits of Perseverance
    Lesley Thornton-Cronin

**Scholars with Disabilities **
41. On-Campus Interviews: The Invisible Chutes 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 Isolation and Increased Loneliness
    Jarod Giger

Conclusion