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Subject: Domestic Partners Survey

       COMPILED BY: JULIEN MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE  (10/93)
                   *Documentation available
                   ^Documentation from NGLTF SURVEY 1990

                  HEALTH INSURANCE for Same Sex Partners
     CANADA
     University of Waterloo (Medical-Blue Cross, Dental-Mutual Life)
     University of British Columbia
     University of Toronto (includes dental insurance)
     Carleton University
     York University
     Wilfred Laruer University
     McGill University
     University of New Brunswick
     University of Windsor
     University of Alberta (working on it)
     University of Lethbridge (working on it)

       UNITED STATES
    (DATE OF ENACTMENT IN PARENTHESES)
      University OF Iowa System (self-insured)(10/92)
      UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
      MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE (VERMONT) (9/93)
      COLUMBIA UNIVERISTY
      COLBY COLLEGE (MAINE) (11/93)
      MIT (passed5/93. Effective 6/93)
      Clark University (passed 5/93)
      University of Chicago (11/92)
      Stanford University (self-insured)(10/92)
      Albert Einstein College of Medicine
      HARVARD UNIVERSITY (APPROVED 5-23-93) (ENACTED 1/94)
     *Pitzer College,CA (financial compensation for the purchase of
         an individual spouse policy)

     New York University (working on it)
     University of California (working on it)
     Rutgers University (working on it)
     Swarthmore College (working on it)
     Brown University (working on it)

     Wellesley College (working on it)
     University of Illinois-Chicago (working on it)
     University of Maine System (working on it) (self-insured)
     UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT (COURT CASE REQUIRING IT 6/93)
     University of Kentucky (working on it)
     Oberlin College (working on it)
     Miami University (working on it)
     Mount Holyoke College (working on it)

    TUITION WAIVERS FOR SAME SEX PARTNERS
     Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
     University of Windsor (Canada)
     University of Toronto (Canada)
     Swarthmore College*
     Colby College*
     Occidental College^
     Oberlin College^
     Wesleyan University (also tuition scholarships for partner's
        college-age children if they are claimed by employee on Fed.Inc.Tax)

     RECREATIONAL/LIBRARY/ID CARDS FOR SAME SEX PARTNERS
     University of Toronto (CANADA)
     Wesleyan University
     Swarthmore College
     MIT (L,R)
     Colby College*
     Rutgers University
     University of California-Santa Cruz (L,R)
     University of California-Irvine
     Carneige Mellon University
     Princeton University
     Yale University
     Tufts University  (R,L,ID)
     University of Texas (R)
     University of Colorado^
     Occidental College^
     Oberlin College
     University of Michigan^
     University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign (working on it)

     HOUSING BENEFITS FOR SAME SEX PARTNERS
     Bowdoin College^
     Columbia University^
     Grinnell College^
      Harvard Law School^
     North Dakota University^
     Union Theological Seminary^
     University of Wisconsin^
     SUNY at Purchase^
     Wesleyan University (rental housing, low interest mortgage payment)

     SICK LEAVE
     Bowdoin College^
     Brown University^
     MIT
     New York University Law School^
     North Dakota University^
     Union Theological Seminary^
     University of Michigan^
     Moorehead State University (w/ presidential discretion)
     University of Arizona System (Household Members)
     University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

     PARENTING LEAVE
     Bowdoin College^
     Brown University^
     Columbia University^
     Georgia State University^
     New York University Law School^
     Union Theological Seminary^
     University of Michigan^
     Ohio State University
     Moorehead State University (w/Presidential Discretion)
     MIT

     PENSION BENEFITS FOR SAME SEX PARTNERS
     Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)

      AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY FOR GAY/LESBIAN FACULTY
       Wesleyan University


    If you have additional information, please contact me: JMURPHY@MAINE