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 ...

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, ...

Many years ago I heard a great teacher make a distinction I never forgot. Every educational institution, he said, has two kinds of subject matter. There is the formal curriculum. And there is what ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Idalis Villanueva Alarcón (FOE 2022) is an associate ...

Imagine sitting in an English classroom, flipping through a textbook meant to teach you the world's most widely spoken language. But beneath the grammar exercises and vocabulary lists lies something ...

“When you’re a college student, you have to learn to work the system to get help. And trust me, there is a system.” This statement, made by a student to an audience of campus administrators and higher ...

Many students eventually figure out what they need to succeed in higher education, but not because they learned about it in high school, or because it was written down in any official handbook.

Are students evaluated on their academic work, or on how well they navigate the college environment? Both, a recent book argues -- which is why mentoring programs should aim to unmask the "hidden ...