Andrea Terry, PhD (she/her)

Just found out I earned tenure and promotion. #proflife #teamrhetoric #sacstate #tenure

We need more people like Eloina, who see an injustice and take action, not for themselves but for those who come behind them. I hope this is just the first of MANY actions she organizes. #proudprof

This is why the humanities and courses I teach in #communicationstudies are important: this student is graduating and wasn’t going to deal with the effects but she had cultivated empathy for others and had the skill to DO something about the situation.

Sacramento State students protest faculty cuts, course reductions Chanting for their education, hundreds of Sacramento State University students walked out of class on Thursday to protest faculty cuts and a reduction in course offerings.

One of my students organized an amazing action at #sacstate protesting course reductions and layoffs. 300+ students attended and called @calstate.bsky.social Chancellor Garcia to account. So powerful!

www.kcra.com/article/sacr...

You lost your 401k... and did Trump make money doing it?

He posted "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" just hours before pausing the tariffs. It's time for everyone to ask House Republicans why they aren't fighting for an investigation into this.

Just snorted laughing.

Boycott Contributions to Senate Democrats Until Chuck Schumer Steps Down Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Get Schumer OUT.

The shame of Columbia University In surrendering to Trump, it's opening all universities to Trump's tyranny

The Shame of Columbia: violating academic freedom

“Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight because of what its faculty researched or taught.”
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Columbia University’s Concessions Strike at Core Principles of Academic Freedom and Self-Governance - PEN America Columbia University capitulates to federal government setting dangerous precedents striking at core academic freedoms

COWARDS. pen.org/press-releas...

Trump issued an executive order invoking a wartime law the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—a little-known law—would allow the government to deport without due process.

She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation. Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

“My well-being is part of my job.” Thank you, @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social

This is a terrifying blow to free speech as we know it.

Trans people will not be erased.

Made some phone calls this morning. Who else is in?

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A Russian state media reporter gained entry to the Oval Office for Trump-Zelensky sit-down | CNN Business A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office on Friday to cover President Trump’s sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters wer...

Russian state media was given access to the Oval Office for the disastrous Trump-Zelensky meeting while the AP and Reuters were blocked www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/m...

Illustration showing that for every 10k people who get measles, 2k are hospitalized, 1k get ear infections with potential hearing loss, 500 get pneumonia, 10-30 get respiratory or neurological complications and 10 get encephalitis. Meanwhile, for every 10k who get the MMR vaccine, 3 get fever related seizures, 0.4 get abnormal blood clotting, and 0.035 get allergic reactions.

Credit where credit is due. NYT’s illustration of the risk of measles infection vs. vaccine is powerful. Via @kkjetelina.bsky.social

My colleagues and I have been working to break news + write stories holding powerful people accountable.

These are the top stories on our homepage right now, one of which I worked on.

Our newsroom work is continuing.

No one has ever told me what to write. If that changes, I’d speak out and leave.

All the social media posting in the world isn’t going to fix things. Share info, yes. But call your legislators, get involved with mutual aid groups, become a legal observer, take an accompaniment training. Hope can be found in the work.

I, for one, would love to see what billions of dollars of stollen looks like. Tasty.

Dr. West is at Sacramento State today! Cannot think of a more timely speaker.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Here's an archive of all federal websites and data captured at the end of the 2024 before the new regime took hold.

eotarchive.org/data/

Just got a request from a student asking me to let them take my face to face class online. Wait, what? Create a whole additional course modality for one person? Has anyone else experienced this? #proflife #teaching #modality

Grift? Yes, but he’s not the only one. Inaugurals aren’t federally funded and generally rely on large loans and donors, with the expectation that the event will make enough money to pay the loans back. Was just reading about this in the George W. Bush presidential archives.

Image of book, titled Partisan Rhetoric and Polarization, The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research Volune 10, edited by Robert X. Browning.

Image of the first page of chapter 8: “Spiritual advisors to the U.S. presidency: mapping the rhetorical terrain” by Andrea J. Terry.

Image of page 150, which includes a figure showing the relationships among genre, occasion, and function of spiritual advisors to U.S. presidents from 1980-2021.

Image of page 154, which includes a bar chart showing the number of public appearances by spiritual advisor during each presidential term, from 1980-2021.

Hot off the press: If you’re at all curious about how spiritual advisors to U.S. presidents have changed in role and function from Reagan to the present, you should check out my chapter in the Year in C-SPAN Archives
Volume! #teamrhetoric #research #politics

I did my PhD there. It is indeed one of the strangest places one can live.

This is great! Is there a publication that goes with it? I want to use it in my political comm class.