18th Chancellor Chancellor Douglas Girod M.D. of University of Kansas

8/01/2019

Chancellor Doug Girod

c/o Office of the Chancellor

University of Kansas

Strong Hall, Room 230

1450 Jayhawk Blvd.

Lawrence, KS  66045

Dear Chancellor Girod,

My name is Matt Winick  from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and diversity. In these subjects or core values I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have diversity to accept people who come from a different background or who are different, a strong need for education reform to improve learning, and many others.   Chancellor Girod, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 18^th Chancellor of the University of Kansas to be very inspiring to me.

In your current role as 18^th Chancellor of the University of Kansas, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter and an advocate of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need for better protection on civil rights to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities’ from being discriminated.  Expanding accommodations to help students with disabilities get help on their assignments like extra times on exams or use educational software including a recorder to improve on comprehension, implementing tutoring services to have students get helping on their classwork from tutors, and pushing for more humanities, history, diversity, arts, and basic classes to make education diverse is common sense for education reform.  Another thing that I like about your work as chancellor of the University of Kansas is how you work on hiring women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for the college, expand on diversity programs to help educate people about different culture, and push for more research programs to help engage students to learn different topics.  Besides your work as chancellor of University of Kansas I like on how you use your role as a medical profession to express the need for health care to help people with pre-existing conditions or people who can’t afford health insurance get the care they need, advocate for the importance for more treatment programs to help people with disabilities including people who have autism get help, and work with other medical non-profit organizations to raise money to go into medical research to find ways to combat against different diseases along with improve medicine.

Chancellor Girod, I have autism with a learning disability. Having a disability is hard for me because I have trouble comprehending on learning different advance subjects, sometimes I struggle to communicate my thoughts, and get teased.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Also I enjoy watching videos on Youtube and reading some articles because I like seeing on how you emphasize the need for health care reform, the importance of a strong need for better health care for people with disabilities including people with autism, and explain how research in medicine can make a great difference.  Your current role as Chancellor of University of Kansas and as a medical profession gives me some motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, and diversity. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination, have health care to help people who can’t afford or have a pre-existing conditions get help with health care, have diversity to accept people who are different or who come from a different background,  have education reform to improve learning, and many others.

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in society and education. I’ m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, push for diversity, expand on education reform, and advocate for better health care along with the need for better improvements to improve medicine. You have inspire me to work hard on disability and learn more about your work. Also I truly appreciate on how you are an advocate for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing with supporting the need for health care reform.  Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. I wish you the best to continue to advocate for common sense ideas.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick

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