Queer Colleagues

All faculty, librarians, and staff who want to give a show of support for queer students are invited to the queer student reception during new student orientation:

Queer Student Reception
Friday, September 2, 2011, 12:30-1:30 PM
Allbritton 311

QUEER COLLEAGUES is an organization of queer Wesleyan University faculty, librarians, and staff. We organize advocacy meetings and social gatherings.  Meetings and gatherings are announced here and on our listserv.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Look here for announcements about queer-related events at Wesleyan for faculty and staff.

ADVOCACY

We advocate to the University regarding employee support for queer issues.  We advocate to Human Resources about benefits for domestic partners and same-sex couples.  If there is a queer-related issue you would like the University to address through this group, please contact Karen Anderson, kanderson at wesleyan dot edu. 

SOCIAL GATHERINGS

We organize social events for queer faculty, librarians, and staff.  Events will be posted to this site.  If you would like to receive e-mail announcements about our events, please contact Karen Anderson, kanderson at wesleyan dot edu.

Wesleyan University offers the following benefits to domestic partners of its employees:  health care benefits, undergraduate tuition assistance for dependent children, and tuition remission for Graduate Liberal Studies Program courses.  For information about benefits, go here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/hr/benefits/2006/benefitslandingpage.html

To be eligible for these benefits, the employee and the partner must submit to the Human Resources office an affidavit of their partnership.  This process simply requires the employee and partner to fill out a form, posted here: http://www.wesleyan.edu/hr/forms.html

Health benefits and GLSP tuition remission constitute taxable income to the employee whose partner receives the benefit.  If the partners are entered into a civil union in Connecticut, they have to pay federal but not state income tax on some of these benefits; please consult a tax specialist for tax advice.

Wesleyan offers domestic partner benefits to same-sex and opposite-sex couples.  Wesleyan does not require same-sex partners to enter into a Connecticut civil union to be eligible for benefits.