Email received: Saturday, Nov 22, 2025 2:40 PM To: CWU Board of Trustees CC: President Wohlpart and VP Elstone From: Dr. Robert Hickey. Department of Geography (ret.)
Dear Trustees, Please consider this to be a formal communication to the Board, and I ask that you read it aloud in its’ entirety at the next BOT meeting. Awhile back, I received a thank you email from the Department of Biology for money that I had donated. Which is awesome, except for one little detail – I didn’t give any money. After checking with the Department Chair and my wife, it turns out that she had given money, but that the only name that filtered down from University Advancement was mine. Now, you’re probably wondering why I am emailing the Trustees instead of UA? My wife and I have gone down that road at least twice – with zero response, concern, or action. Every communication from UA regarding my wife’s donations includes me. Now, I realize that CWU is now an old, white male patriarchy (with a lot of DEI verbiage). But, are we really still in the 1950s? Where we assume that anything done by a woman must be with the explicit permission of her husband? My wife is smarter and earns more than I do. What she does with her money is her business, not mine. Donations made by individuals should be credited to individuals. Always. CWU remains stuck in the dark ages, despite all the rhetoric. I ask the Trustees to start hiring people who look forward, rather than backwards. Thank you for your time. If the Trustees have any questions, I am happy to answer them. Dr. Robert Hickey
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