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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 · 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 · 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

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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 · 24/05/2025

Oh my goodness thank you!! I'm so glad it helped you. ❤️ Your students are so lucky to have you!

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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

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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@shellyeversley.bsky.social closes tonight's event reminding us that here is our moment and we can make the impossible possible.

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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's a miracle that we entrust our kids to these institutions and they come back transformed. Terrible things are happening to students right now... And it's a miracle that they keep showing up and they are here and they are graduating. - @cathyndavidson.bsky.social

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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@cathyndavidson.bsky.social says the commonality between students in higher ed institutions is that college is voluntary and that's amazing because humans typically suck when we know something is good for us and we should do it (like going to the gym). But somehow students manage to graduate!

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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

Cathy N. Davidson adds that when students are surveyed and asked if they have been exposed to multiple perspectives they say YES! But that's not the message being circulated and we need to share that message. @cathyndavidson.bsky.social @futuresed.bsky.social

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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

Some sound bites! "We know that college changes students lives...but we're progressively defunding higher education. We have a weird attitude here that we're cutting the thing that would help fix inequity." @cathyndavidson.bsky.social

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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

Shelly Lowe says if you think of the mission of higher ed institutions a lot of them are trying to do the same things. We have similar missions. When funding is tied to politics you have to go back to your founding mission before politics came into play and stick to it. Together. We all do.

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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

Both comment that their work on the National Council on the Humanities was a good moment to do this work and they need to keep looking for opportunities to do this work, engage and co-create with communities, and we have the opportunity to speak up and change the moment.

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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

Kelly emphasizes the importance of making this work visible to people. Cantor adds that we have to take the work into the communities and engage in constant, long-term co-creation. Kelly comments that we haven't done enough of that and we should be doing that.

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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 · 09/05/2025

Wallace remembers being a student of @cathyndavidson.bsky.social and how her model of inspiring, transformational mentorship is one he has tried to emulate in his career. Preach!!! 🙌🏻

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Christina Katopodis @katopodis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Wallace hopes we will continue public lectures and advertise them in a way that the public actually wants to come and accessible so they can attend them.

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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

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