Partner Accommodation Policy

Department of English
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri

approved: 16 April 2002

The department believes its goals are well served by good faith efforts to accommodate the spouses and domestic partners of current and future faculty members. Such accommodation helps us recruit outstanding new faculty, retain valued existing faculty, and improve the working environment for all faculty. As long as the partner meets or exceeds the department's standards of teaching and scholarly excellence, that person's relationship to a future or existing faculty member should increase his or her chances of being hired. In no case will the department hire anyone solely because of that person's status as the partner of a current or future faculty member. To the fullest extent possible, the customary departmental procedures will be followed in all hires that result in partner accommodation.