Christina Katopodis
@katopodis.bsky.social
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.
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.
Episode 1:1 Why Innovation Requires Equity
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October 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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.
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
Policies, Attitudes, Design: Promoting the Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Women in Greater China
Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)
www.cogitatiopress.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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
I know I keep saying it but @cuny.edu really is the best, y'all. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/b...
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.
www.cnbc.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know I keep saying it but @cuny.edu really is the best, y'all. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/b...
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...
Student Self-Assessments – Christina Katopodis, PhD
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September 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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...
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_...
September 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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_...
Reposted by Christina Katopodis
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...
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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September 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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...
Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...
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!
August 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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!
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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May 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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...
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.
May 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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.
Reposted by Christina Katopodis
We cannot have a single-issue movement because we don’t live single-issue lives.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
May 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We cannot have a single-issue movement because we don’t live single-issue lives.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde
@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)
May 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
@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)
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
@futuresed.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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
@futuresed.bsky.social
@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
@futuresed.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@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
@futuresed.bsky.social
@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
May 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@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
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.
May 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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.
Reposted by Christina Katopodis
"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.
May 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"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.
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
May 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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
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!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
May 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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.
May 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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.
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)
May 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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)
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
May 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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
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
May 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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
"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)
May 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"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)
Reposted by Christina Katopodis
"Storytelling is as important as science". @shellyeversley.bsky.social about the importance of liberal arts and humanities in Higher Education.
May 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"Storytelling is as important as science". @shellyeversley.bsky.social about the importance of liberal arts and humanities in Higher Education.