Arizona debates partner benefits

by E Wayne Ross on January 8, 2008

Inside Higher Ed:

Arizona is the latest state where extending health benefits to the partners of gay employees in public higher education has become controversial. Capital Media Services reported that the administration of Gov. Janet Napolitano has moved through the state regulatory process to add the benefits, arguing that offering them will make the state’s colleges more competitive in recruiting employees. But the Center for Arizona Policy, a group that describes itself as supporting “traditional moral principles,” has filed objections to the plan.