President Kevin J Worthen of Brigham Young University

 

4/02/2023

President Kevin J Worthen

c/o Office of the President

Brigham Young University

Abraham Smoot Administration Building

Campus Drive

Provo, UT 84602

Dear President Worthen,

My name is Matt Winick from Ann Arbor, Michigan and I have a strong interest in learning history, social justice, and diversity. In these core values or subjects, I like to learn the importance of the need for Civil Rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have diversity to help accept people who are different or come from different background, improve social justice to make communities safer, and have education reform to make learning a better tool.  President Worthen,  The main reason I’m writing you a letter is to explain how I find your work as 13^th President of Brigham Young University to be very inspiring to me.

In your role as 13th President of Brigham Young University  (May 2014-May 2023), 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.  On people with disabilities; rights, I like on how you work to expand courses for people with disabilities to learn different subjects including basic introductory courses to help them learn. 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. Also to improve diversity in education I like on how you expand on more Liberal Arts classes (arts, history, humanities, and diversity) to help make education diverse to learn.  Another thing that I like about your work as President of Brigham Young University is how you support diversity by hiring women, minorities, and people with disabilities to work for the college, working with students groups or organizations to find ways to improve the campus, and improving Title IX regulations to help protect women or students who are victims of sexual assault get help from college resources to assist on dealing with their trauma.  Also I liked on how  you worked to expand on giving BYU students free of charge on riding on regional transportation or commuter rail transit system to help them get access to transportation,  continued to advocate for immigration reform to help immigrants including refuges to be protect from being oppressed while get an opportunity to get an education Another thing that I like about your work as President of Brigham Young 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 to get the care they need, expand 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,  Besides your work as President of BYU, I enjoy reading some of your articles about Native American laws , the importance to help their community from fraud or abuse by financial institutions, and many others. 

President Worthen, 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 in different settings, and get teased. Also with a disability I have struggles on trying to understand how society works due to my struggle with comprehension 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 your website  I enjoy watching you talk about diversity, education reform, need for improvements in social justice, equity issues, and some of ideas to improve society. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to help emphasize the need for Civil Rights to be stronger to reduce discrimination, have diversity in society to help accept people who are different or come from different backgrounds, have education reform to make learning a better tool to improve society, and many others. 13th President of Brigham Young University gives me motivation to continue to learn different subjects. My future goal is to someday work in these areas to emphasize 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 reform to make learning a better tool, make social justice stronger to improve communities, and many others.   My letter is a gift to you for inspiring me and to wish you a Happy Birthday for April 15th.  Your articles about Native American issues help me develop an interest in learning the importance of the need to help Native Americans have rights as minorities, people with disabilities,  and women and to help protect them from fraud,  and a strong need for more education to help teach people about Native American culture or history.  

I strongly believe that you are making a great difference. I’m very proud on how you are working hard to support civil rights, expand on diversity inclusion, improve 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. Thanks for taking the time to read my letter, working hard to make a great difference, and inspiring me. Please continue to make an impact on society.

Sincerely,

Matt Winick