Honorable Rebecca Blank from Wisconsin (Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce and current Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison )

 

9/02/2021

Honorable Rebecca Blank

c/o Office of the Chancellor

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bascom Hall, Room 163

500 Lincoln Drive

Madison, WI  53706

Dear Honorable Blank,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest  in learning history, social justice, environment, education reform, and diversity.  In these subjects or core values, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, have diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background,  a strong need for education reform to improve learning, and many others. Honorable Blank, The main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work when you served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce and as current Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison to be very inspiring to me. 

When you served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce from 2010-2013, I liked on how you worked with President Obama to work on expanding on civil rights by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights, supporting funds for women including minorities businesses to help them compete in the economy, and working to expand on civil rights legislation to help protect minorities, women, and people with disabilities from being discriminated in a work place.  Another thing that I liked about your work was how you work to improve safety protections to help make sure that products that come from overseas including made in our country to go through inspection to help protect consumers, and expand on educational awareness to help educate small businesses owners including companies about following rules to make sure that their businesses is safe for workers including people who buy products.  In your current role as Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison, I truly appreciate on how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights causes by advocating for people with disabilities’ rights and expressing the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination. I liked on how you work to expand on rules to combat against bullying and harassment.  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, and 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. Also to improve diversity in education I like on how you expanded more basic or introductory classes to different subjects, expand on arts, history, and humanities to help accept students with different skills to learn different subjects or assist students to explore different courses to their degree.  Another thing that I like about your work as Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison is how you expand on more research programs to help students get engage to learn how different topics can make a great difference for society, implement mental health services to help students who struggle with mental health to get the care they need, and push for more scholarships to help low income students or minorities get assistance on getting into college or affording supplies Besides your work as Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison is is I like on how you are how you are a continuous strong supporter of civil rights causes, advocate for environmental protection to reduce pollution, emphasize the need for more liberal arts in colleges, heavily advocate for the need for arts, history, and literature to be more present in society,  importance of having diversity play a role in education, and express the need for immigration reform to help protect immigrants, dreamers, and refugees from being oppressed. 

Honorable Blank, 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. Also with a disability I have struggles on trying to understand how society works and I get bullied by women including adults about having a disability.  Your commitment to be a strong supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes really inspires me to work hard on my disability.  Your role as former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce  and as current Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison  gives me motivation to continue to learn different subjects.  My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution,  improve education reform to make learning a better tool, have diversity to accept people who are different or come from a different background,  and many others. On Youtube and on your website, I enjoy learning about some of your ideas of education reform, different approaches on how to include diversity in education, and many others. 

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference in society and education. I’m very proud on how you work hard to support civil rights, expand on education reform, improve diversity, make social justice stronger, and many others. You have inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn about your work, 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. Please continue to make a great difference in education and society.

Sincerely,   

Matt Winick