University of Wisconsin's Loss of Domestic Partner Benefits Loses Faculty

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6 Mar 2007

I linked to this story earlier, but the story bears more attention, and I've found some addition links with more information. The state of Wisconsin is pursuing a same sex-marriage ban and is refusing to provide domestic partner benefits, and as a result the nation's leading researcher in nanotechnology, Robert Carpick, left the University of Wisconsin-Madison to go to the University of Pennsylvania - and he took the grant money for nanotechnology with him, basically killing UWM's entire program.

Journal Sentinel: Researcher, grants leaving UW for lack of partner benefits

Wisconsin State Journal: Let state insure domestic partners


DOMESTIC PARTNER BENEFITS; Out of step, uncompetitive

This is essentially what will happen here in Indiana as well - to be competitive, universities need to attract the best and the brightest, and taking away these benefits will foster an air of intolerance that will keep them far away from Indiana.

Posted on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 2:31 PM

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