Article: Wake Forest University extends employee benefits to same-sex domestic partners

Starting this semester, Wake Forest University is extending employee benefits to same-sex domestic partners of staff and faculty members.

Wake Forest joins about 120 other colleges and universities around the country that offer same-sex domestic partner benefits, according to Daryl Herrschaft of the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington-based gay and lesbian rights group. "It's a move whose time has come," Herrschaft says. "If institutions want to attract and retain top-caliber candidates, they have to offer these benefits. More than half of the colleges and universities ranked in the top fifty by U.S. News and World Report offer same-sex domestic partner benefits." The Human Rights Campaign ...