Working Group Reports: Partner Accommodations
Please Note: These reports were produced by working group teams participating in the MizzouDiversity Summit. There may be errors in some of the data provided and the viewpoints presented reflect the beliefs and opinions of the working group teams but do not necessarily represent the official positions of the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative or the University of Missouri.
“The University of Missouri System does not discriminate on the basis … sexual orientation….” UM Statement of Nondiscrimination 10/16/2003
- Mary Bixby
- Wayne Sanders
- Linda Reeder
At Request of Chancellor, Profs Reeder & Callahan Report to Minority Affairs Re: DPB 2/17/2005
- Reasons: Equity, recruitment and retention of faculty/staff, compliance and social justice
- Current system implicitly discriminatory
- No accommodations for employees who cannot marry
- Cannot request parental leave for partners, children raised jointly
- Not covered under tuition allocation for partners and kids
MU Faculty Council
- Resolved "Support [of] a change in System policy to extend long-term care insurance benefits to domestic partners" 9/29/05
- Heard K. Hutchinson, VP of HR, about the ability to follow through:
- “Definition of family defined by Board of Curators and doesn’t include DP”
- “Even though this would not cost the university any money…"
10/20/05 FAC Council Minutes
Intercampus Faculty Council Minutes
- "Concern was expressed that this is a politically sensitive topic, and not something that the UM system should try to implement through a simple rule-change in the benefits package."
- "General agreement that the current Board of Curators would not support domestic partner benefits."
- "Pres. Floyd offered personally to attend on-campus meetings to discuss [DPB]. "
10/21/05
Report of Task Force for Campus Climate Recommends:
- Develop additional benefits programs to recruit and retain high quality faculty, staff including domestic partner benefits & domestic partner/spousal accommodation for new hires (12/05 p. 19)
- Hutchinson reconfirms DPB
- "Not that costly"
- "A political issue"
- MU Staff advisory Council Minutes 5/24/07
