The Hidden Curriculum of Extracurricular Activities: Faculty Labor, Identity, and Recognition in Business Schools

In the post-pandemic context, extracurricular activities (ECAs) have gained renewed prominence in business schools as institutions increasingly rely on them to enhance student engagement, career readiness, and experiential learning. While much of the existing conversation around ECAs has focused on student outcomes, considerably less attention has been given to the faculty labor that designs, sustains, and legitimizes these activities. This roundtable proposes a reframing of ECAs as pedagogical spaces through which a hidden curriculum is enacted, emphasizing the informal teaching, mentoring, and relational work carried out by faculty advisors. Designed as an interactive and participant-driven discussion, the session invites business school faculty and administrators to share and contrast their experiences supporting ECAs across institutional and cultural contexts. Through guided dialogue, the roundtable will examine issues related to faculty identity, workload, recognition, and the sustainability of ECA engagement, with the aim of identifying best practices, surfacing persistent tensions, and outlining teaching implications and future directions for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in business education.