Dr. Kerry Crawford is an Associate Professor and the Department Chair of Political Science atJames Madison University. She was the International Studies Association’s 2015-2016 James N.Rosenau Postdoctoral Fellow.Dr. Leah Windsor is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Englishand the Institute for Intelligent Systems at The University of Memphis. She also has FacultyAffiliate status with CAESER (Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research) andin the Department of Political Science.

"Academic Chutes & Ladders immediately resonated with me because it names what so many of us have lived. As a full professor and senior leader, I have navigated race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, caregiving, and the ways academic culture can quietly privilege some disciplines over others; I know firsthand what it is to navigate without the ladder of formal or informal mentorship, and that imposter syndrome is not a reflection of who belongs, it is a symptom of whose belonging was assumed and supported from the start, a structural product of what Crawford and Windsor so compellingly illuminate as the hidden curriculum. This timely, insightful, and deeply engaging book opens essential dialogue about transparency, equity, belonging, and accessibility at a moment when institutions are reexamining their cultures."

• FiguresAbout the EditorsAbout the ContributorsIntroduction Section 1 Square One—Starting the Game (or Entering the Academic Pipeline)Undergraduate Education1 Attaining and Sustaining Mentorship during College Clare R. Brock and Emily M. Farris2 The Chutes and Ladders in Mentoring Undergraduate ResearchJamie Scalera Elliott, Srobana Bhattacharya, Alison M. Clifton, Sean P.Giovanello, and Kirsten L. Taylor3 FAFSAs, EFCs, and COAs, Oh My: Navigating the Realm of Student Financial Aid C. Kelsey RyanGraduate Students4 From First-Generation College Graduate to PhD Student: How to Transition Successfully Elizabeth I. Dorssom5 Live Long and Suffer: The Plight of the Grad Student Jennifer H. Tatara6 Ritual Anxieties: Living with and Working through Anxiety in Academia Rae Summers-Thompson and William Duffy7 The Developmental Dissertation Leanne C. PownerThe Job Market8 Navigating the Affective Component of the Academic Job Search in a Precarious Market Amy Collins and Kaity Prieto9 Navigating the “Hidden Curriculum” as an International ScholarIrmak Yazici10 Scaling the Chute: Academic Job Hunting while MotheringChristine I. KugelmannSection 2 Ascending the Ladders and Rising through the RanksNon-Tenure Track Faculty 11 The Perpetual Impostor Amy Cooter12 Overcoming the Research Funding Barrier: Undergraduate Research as an Opportunity for Non-Tenure Track Faculty Holley E. Hansen13 A Placeholder for Paused Progress The Editors14 On the Outside, Looking In: Pathways to Success for Non-Tenure Track Faculty Karen Huxtable-Jester and Paul F. DiehlJunior 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. Wolfe17 From the Top: Chairs’ Role in Developing Faculty SuccessDiana K. Ivy, Shane A. Gleason, and Kelly M. Miller Tenure and Promotion18 The Chutes and Ladders of Service at a Small Liberal Arts CollegePatrick Homan19 Doing Away with “The Way We Do Things around Here”: Clarity and Equity in Tenure and Promotion Rashna Wadia RichardsService, Teaching, and Research20 Tackling the Role of Department Chair while Living with an Invisible Chronic Illness Gretchen Peterson21 Musical Chairs: Service, the Curse of Competence, and Delayed Promotion Carrie Liu Currier22 Who’s Going to Teach It? Equitable Distribution of Course Development Demands Tara ParsonsSenior Faculty23 Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Secondary Trauma: Self-Care in Higher Education Tami Micsky24 So, You’re Thinking about Moving into Academic Administration (aka the Dark Side)? Mark A. Boyer25 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 Padilla28 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 AcademiaKelly 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 StudentSuccess 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 theLadders Lynn Bielski, Emily T. Cripe, Katharina A. Azim, Stacey H. Bender,Maggie Campbell-Obaid, Kathryn E. Frazier, Janet Garcia-Hallett, JenniferH. 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 AcademiaCourtney B. Peters 40 The Bittersweet Fruits of Perseverance Lesley Thornton-Cronin Scholars with Disabilities 41 On-Campus Interviews: The Invisible Chutes and Missed Ladders forDisabled Academics Melanie R. Savelli 42 OCD Meets PhD: The Fight to Thrive in Academia with an InvisibleIllness Maya Novak-Herzog 43 Disabilities and the Hidden Curriculum Eun A Jo, Sally Friedman, and Alan Babcock44 It Took My Village: How the Pandemic Worsened Decades of SocialIsolation and Increased Loneliness Jarod GigerConclusionReferences Index