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Christina Katopodis

@katopodis.bsky.social
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Feminist educator and writer; 19C Americanist; Co-Author of The New College Classroom; Environmentalist. Proud CUNY graduate and Managing Director of ACERT at Hunter College. Opinions are my own.

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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An AI Policy that focuses on the WHEN (and Why): christinakatopodis.com/pedagogy/an-...
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An AI Policy that Focuses on the “When” – Christina Katopodis, PhD
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New blog post is up! Sharing my revised AI policy which focuses on the "When" to use AI and when not to. christinakatopodis.com/pedagogy/an-...
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An AI Policy that Focuses on the “When” – Christina Katopodis, PhD
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Hunter ACERT @hunteracert.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You can support faculty development and student success at Hunter College by participating in #HunterGives! Every contribution--no matter the size--helps to support meaningful learning. giving.hunter.cuny.edu/schools/Hunt...
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Support ACERT's Faculty & Staff Development Initiatives on #HunterGives!
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Hunter ACERT @hunteracert.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We are so excited about Tuesday's Red Helicopter event with author James Rhee at Hunter College, 5-7pm ET in Hemmerdinger, co-sponsored with the School of Education. Join us! @huntercollege.bsky.social
ACERT x School of Ed
Red Helicopter
Join us for an engaging conversation featuring James Rhee and Red Helicopter
Participant Benefits (Limit 50): 
- Free Copy of the Red Helicopter Book
- Invitation to the ACERT/SOE Red Helicopter Teaching Scholarship Circle in the Spring semester
Tue, January 27 (5-7PM)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I'm so proud of The New College Classroom coauthored with expert active learning and pedagogy scholar @katopodis.bsky.social. Thank you Harvard U Press for displaying it so proudly at the #MLA2026 book exhibit and thanks to everyone reading and using the book to inspire today's students.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hi! Have you eaten something today? Taken your meds? Had a big glass of water? Planned something fun offline this weekend? Naps still count. I know things are really stressful right now and it's hard to focus. Remember to breathe. Try and lower your shoulders. One thing at a time.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Loved spotting The New College Classroom coauthored with Cathy N. Davidson at the Harvard University Press booth at #MLA2026! @cathyndavidson.bsky.social
Christina Katopodis stands in front of the book booth holding up a copy of her coauthored book.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society has an open call for applications! Deadline is Jan 16, 2026: emersonsociety.org/2026-call-fo...
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2026 Call for Applications: Emerson Fellowship at the Houghton Library - Emerson Society
Applications for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship at the Houghton Library are open! The Visiting Fellowship program offers scholars at all stages of their
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If you need inspiration to lift you up so you can keep going, have a listen to this amazing podcast! We need each other now more than ever. Find your people and keep doing what you do. Put love first. feat. @cathyndavidson.bsky.social and @shellyeversley.bsky.social at the @futuresed.bsky.social.
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Episode 1:1 Why Innovation Requires Equity
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Congratulations to my @cuny.edu colleague, Xuemeng Li, on the publication of her article, "Policy, Attitudes, Design: Promoting the Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Women in Greater China." www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclus... Bravo, Xuemeng! @huntercollege.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social
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Policies, Attitudes, Design: Promoting the Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Women in Greater China
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I know I keep saying it but @cuny.edu really is the best, y'all. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/b...
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These 10 colleges offer the best value in the U.S., says new report—only 1 is an Ivy League
The City University of New York network of colleges offer affordable attendance costs and strong career outcomes.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I've used student cover letters again this semester, and man these are heartbreakingly beautiful: their commitments to learn & improve themselves despite working multiple jobs; their desire to make space for everyone to speak. They're so genuine & impressive. christinakatopodis.com/pedagogy/stu...
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Student Self-Assessments – Christina Katopodis, PhD
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Get your holiday gift wrap and gifts early this year AND help support a public elementary school! 30-40% of every purchase goes to the school to fund educational enrichments like hands-on science, folktale theatre, studio art, yoga and mindfulness! registercw.com/gateway?utm_...
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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The upside to AI being foisted on educators is maybe we'll see arevolution in pedagogical styles and champion active, engaged, participatory (i.e. real, Freirian, hooksian) learning, K-doctoral. Lots of helpful pre-AI Tips in @katopodis.bsky.social and my www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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The New College Classroom — Harvard University Press
Frederic W. Ness Book Award, American Association of Colleges and Universities A Forbes Best Higher Education Book “A practical guide to more effective and engaged college teaching.”—Forbes “Everyone...
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Really proud of the work that Hunter College's ACERT (@hunteracert.bsky.social) is doing! If you are at Hunter, join us on Zoom for our Lunchtime Seminara, Aug 18-21 @ 12-1pm ET!
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Tomorrow is Margaret Fuller's 215th birthday! Celebrate intellectual community and social reform by making a gift to the Margaret Fuller Society. 25% goes to Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House: margaretfullersociety.org/announcement...
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
So excited to talk with the UW Madison faculty and staff today about active learning and the science behind peer learning! One of today's discussions will be a fishbowl and I can't wait.
The Music Hall building at UW Madison at dusk.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We cannot have a single-issue movement because we don’t live single-issue lives. Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, 1987

Looking immaculate in white, pin-striped top, a thin gold chain necklace or two, with a bemused and slightly tired expression, leaning against a white wall, photographed by Robert Giard

Staten Island, NY

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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@shellyeversley.bsky.social asks for final thoughts: Wallace reflects on the excitement in the room, people are full of conviction; Lowe wants us to assess what we already have in resources & ensure they're accessible to more ppl; Kelly's goal is to make the private public, for public good (1/2)
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Shelly Lowe speaks to the question of what higher ed doesn't see. "How do we define 'public good' and how does the public define it? I don't think those definitions are the same. We need to understand the public good when it comes from a conservative angle. We have to." @futuresed.bsky.social
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social speaks about college debt and that most have $40K in debt but for profit college debt is three times that plus higher dropout rates. It exacerbates the problem but we're seeing a push for privatization and that's precisely what we don't want. @futuresed.bsky.social
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social speaks with admiration about people who engage in lifelong learning at CUNY and how many people take courses while holding full time jobs, raising children, or even in their retirement to keep learning and be curious. @cuny.edu
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Shelly Lowe laughs about how exciting it is to be in this moment and how staff have said, "We are going to be in the history books for this moment!" And it is a hopeful outlook to think about this opportunity we have right now.
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"If funding is going to be tied to politics, we need to be tied to each other. Transform competitive spaces into collaborative ones." - Nancy Cantor, President of CUNY's Hunter College.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
How can I be real about the situation we're in and be hopeful? The reality is we need you (graduates). We need all those brilliant, well-trained students. But it takes a lot of fortitude to be hopeful right now. - @cathyndavidson.bsky.social
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Nancy Cantor adds that we have to be doing things together. We cannot be an isolated institution competing against one another. We need collaboration. We can't be simply looking for funding for individual agencies. We have to work together. @huntercollege.bsky.social Brava!! Well said!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Prof. @shellyeversley.bsky.social reminds us that her ancestors were enslaved, and they had to imagine freedom and see it in their minds before they could create it. This is a moment when we make things, maybe from a ruin, from the challenges in our moment, and think big so we can endure.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Shelly Lowe (Chair of NEH, 2022-2025), remembering her time working with @cathyndavidson.bsky.social as an @barackobama.bsky.social appointee: "What are we doing [in higher education] to ensure that we're putting democracy front and center?" At Futures of Higher Ed (@futuresed.bsky.social)
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Maurice Wallace brings up the practice of civil disobedience and its cost. Comrades know (allies may not know) that the practice of academic freedom may cost us something. The question is will we still stand? @futuresed.bsky.social
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
If we have this perspective you don't also have to have the opposite perspective to everything. That's not interrogating an idea. We have to interrogate ideas & hat's not the same thing. We do have a responsibility to create safe spaces for interrogation. And that is hard to do. -Cantor
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"What I can't stand is this idea of neutrality. We can't pretend that global issues that are resting with our homes, students and communities are things we can be neutral about," says Nancy Cantor @huntercollege.bsky.social (lots of claps of agreement in the room)
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Storytelling is as important as science". @shellyeversley.bsky.social about the importance of liberal arts and humanities in Higher Education.
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hunter College President Nancy Cantor reminds us of the importance of doing research embedded with communities: “We need a two-way street—a community of experts with and without formal credentials—who really co-produce solutions.” #FutureOfHigherEd
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Shelly Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, highlights our responsibility to communicate the value of our work: "Higher ed is facing cuts, discrediting, and public distrust—but the public doesn’t know what’s being lost. That’s on us!"
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social remembers co-teaching a class with William P. Kelly at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Students put up posters around their neighborhoods in their native languages and took people (who have never been to a museum before) on guided tours of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Maurice Wallace adds that we need comrades. A comrade is accountable, is called to act. Have we been comrades to the community? Think of the staff and faculty and their communities outside the academy, invite them to bring that into their work on campus and vice versa. @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Maurice Wallace holds a mic, talking on stage.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"This is an All Hands On Deck moment. Everyone needs to be making comrades together in this moment. We have to have the public on our side." Does the public know what grants have been cut? What does that mean to their lives? "We're going to have to take the long road." - Shelly Lowe
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
GC President Josh Brumberg kicks off the Futures Initiative "Futures of Higher Ed" event at the podium in Elebash Hall. @futuresed.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
GC President Josh Brumberg kicks off the Futures Initiative "Futures of Higher Ed" event at the podium in Elebash Hall.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
William P. Kelly (President Emeritus of @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) reflects on what we are defending and remembers a 25+ years mission to rebuild the connection between higher ed and public communities, and make ourselves indispensable to people's lives. A challenge, a charge for all of us.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We need to work with ppl on the ground in our communities to make it clear that the arts & humanities are critical to our health, to our climate science (e.g., flood resistance in NYC) & create a 2-way street to coproduce solutions. -Nancy Cantor (@huntercollege.bsky.social) @futuresed.bsky.social
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Starting now! The Future of Higher Education with @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, @shellyeversley.bsky.social, Nancy Cantor (@huntercollege.bsky.social), William P. Kelly, Shelly Lowe, and Maurice Wallace at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social hosted by @futuresed.bsky.social!
Panelists sit on stage as Prof. Shelly Eversley holds the mic and welcomes everyone.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
If OpenAI / chatGPT is supposed to do something for the public good, then it could have been rolled out differently to actually serve education and learning rather than overwhelming the education system in the whiplash. Great point by @alondra.bsky.social at today's @futuresed.bsky.social webinar!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
At today's Futures Initiative webinar on AI and the Future of Higher Education, @cathyndavidson.bsky.social quotes Andrew Chee: "Love yourself enough to write your own term papers," @alexanderchee.bsky.social. SO important that we emphasize love, and foster self-advocacy & self-trust in students!!
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In today's "AI and the Future of Higher Education," @cathyndavidson.bsky.social mentions former FI Fellow Chris McGuinness and what she has learned about Hugging Face, a "GitHub for AI": huggingface.co @hf.co @futuresed.bsky.social @hastac.bsky.social
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Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“The risks and possibilities of AI aren’t the same in K–12 and college classrooms. And we shouldn’t assume AI is an educational advance—it must be proven, demonstrated, and researched.” @alondra.bsky.social in conversation with @cathyndavidson.bsky.social in our webinar.
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Futures Initiative @futuresed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We are starting now! Join us!
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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's a watch party! We're at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social tuning into "AI and the Future of Higher Education" with @alondra.bsky.social & @cathyndavidson.bsky.social hosted by @futuresed.bsky.social and moderated by Jade Davis. @hastac.bsky.social
People sit around a long table watching a webinar.
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