8th President M. Brian Blake of Georgia State University

9/13/2022

President M. Brian Blake

c/o Office of the President

Georgia State University

P.O. Box 3999

Atlanta, GA  30302-3999

Dear President Blake,

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, I like to learn the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on diversity inclusion to accept people who are different or who have different skills, improve education to make learning a better tool, and many others. President Blake, the main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 8th President of Georgia State University and your work on diversity inclusion to be very inspiring to me. 

In 2021, I was amazed on how you made history on becoming the first African American to become President of Georgia State University.  In your current role as 8th President of Georgia State University, I truly appreciate on how you are a strong supporter and advocate for 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. Also to improve civil rights, 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 President of Georgia State University 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 or other people who live in the Atlanta, Georgia area  to get the care they need,  push for more scholarships to help low income students or minorities get assistance on getting into college or affording supplies, create Equity Task Force to find ways to combat against racial injustice while find ways to expand on making education more accessible to people who come from disadvantage communities along with who come from different communities, and heavily express the need to reduce high tuition cost to help students from paying high costs in order to get a college. Besides your work as President of Georgia State University is how you are a continuous advocate along with a supporter of civil rights including people with disabilities’ rights causes to reduce discrimination,  address the need for environmental protection to reduce pollution, and emphasize the need for immigration reform to help protect dreamers, immigrants, and refugees from being oppressed or when they come from oppressive countries. 

President Blake, I have autism with a learning disability. 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 due to my struggle with comprehension, sometimes face injustice due to having a disability, 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. Also on Youtube and some of your writings I enjoy learning about your ideas to combat against discrimination, ways to improve diversity inclusion, ideas to improve education reform, the importance of expanding on research in science to improve society, and many others.   Your role as 8th President of Georgia State University helps give me motivation to continue to learn different subjects. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for civil rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, protect the environment from pollution, expand on education reform to improve learning,  have diversity to accept people who are different or who come from a different background, and improve on social justice to make communities a better place.  

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference for society including education. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, expand on diversity inclusion, push for education reform, and many others.  You truly inspire me to work hard on my disability, learn more about your work, and continue to learn different subjects. I was wondering if you could share with me on what it is like being President of Georgia State University and some of your ideas to improve diversity inclusion. 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 for society and education.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick