19th President Mark Keenum of Mississippi State University

5/10/2021

President Mark Keenum

c/o Office of The President

Mississippi State University

Campus Mail Stop 9720

P.O. Box 6018

Mississippi State, MS  39762

Dear President Keenum,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, diversity, environment,  and education reform. In these subjects or core values, I like to learn the need for civil rights to help reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on education reform to improve learning, improve diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background, make social justice stronger to improve communities, and many others.  President Keenum, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 19^th President of Mississippi State University to be very inspiring to me and how I like some of your work on agriculture ideas.

In your current role as 19^th President of Mississippi State University, I like on how you are a strong supporter and advocate of civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need to make civil rights stronger to reduce discrimination in order to protect women, minorities, and people with disabilities.  Supporting accommodations to help students with disabilities like extra time on exams or use educational software to help improve comprehension, expanding tutoring services to provide students with help on their assignments from tutors, implementing more liberal arts, arts, humanities, history, and basic classes to make education diverse along with make more opportunities for students to find subjects that they want to learn are great ways to improve education reform.  On diversity, I like on how you work on hiring women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for the college and expand on programs to help educate staff members and students about different cultures along with the need for diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background. Another thing that I like about your work as President of Mississippi State University is how you expanded MSU Promise Program to help give scholarships to Mississippi students who lives with families that are low-income to help them get into a college, implement more research programs to help students including faculty get engage to learn how different topics can make a great difference for society, and advocate for the need to reduce high tuition cost to help reduce students from going into student loan debt.  Besides your work as President of Mississippi State University, I like on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights causes, advocate for environmental protection to reduce pollution, and emphasize the need for more liberal arts in colleges. Also I like on how you use your experience in the agriculture education field to support ideas to improve agriculture reform like expand food safety to reduce contamination in food products, implement research in agriculture to improve food life while find some solutions to protect the environment,  and heavily support along with advocate for programs to help address the need for nutrition including expansion of food bank programs to help bring nutrition to communities along with people who are low-income to have a healthy life style.  

President Keenum, 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 and advocate of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability. Also on Youtube I enjoy watching videos and reading some of your articles about the need for improvements on food safety, the importance of research in agriculture to help reduce food insecurity while protect the environment, a strong need for nutrition programs to help feed people including people who are poor to get healthy food while combat against obesity. Your role as 19^th President of Mississippi State University and your work on agriculture reform helps give me motivation to continue to learn history, social justice, environment, education reform, agriculture reform, 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, , protect the environment from pollution, expand on education reform to improve learning, improve diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background, make social justice stronger to improve communities, have agriculture reform to improve food, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society, education, and agriculture. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, push for education reform, expand on diversity, protect the environment, advocate for agriculture reform, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, develop an interest in agriculture reform, and continue to learn different subjects. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. I was wondering if you could please share with me what it like being President of Mississippi State University and some of your goals to improve education including agriculture. Please continue to work hard to make a great difference for society and advocate for common sense ideas. 

Sincerely,

Matt Winick