by Julie Boggs
As the six individuals from CUPA-HR’s 2017-18 Wildfire program finished their program year by sharing their capstone projects, a new group of Wildfire participants is just getting started. Read about the projects from last year’s group, and meet this year’s cohort.
by Missy Kline
Does your institution hire faculty, professionals or postdocs who are foreign nationals? If so, you can speed up your H-1B application process by using CUPA-HR’s DataOnDemand tool to obtain a prevailing wage determination (the first step in filing an H-1B visa).
by Missy Kline
Each year, CUPA-HR’s Higher Education Human Resource Awards honor individuals, teams and institutions that are doing outstanding and innovative work around advancing diversity and inclusion in higher ed, elevating the HR role on campus, furthering the higher ed HR profession, and giving selflessly of their time and talents to CUPA-HR and their higher ed HR peers.
by CUPA-HR
On May 9, the Trump Administration released its Unified Regulatory Agenda and Regulatory Plan, providing the regulated public with a detailed glimpse into the regulatory policies and priorities under consideration by 59 federal departments, agencies and commissions.
by Andy Brantley
Age 55 … that’s the median age of chief HR officers in higher ed. With a retirement boom looming, what are we, as HR leaders, doing to guide and mentor the early-career professionals who are a part of our HR organizations? HR in higher ed is a tough job, so it’s imperative that we take the time and the care to prepare our next round of leaders so they can take the reigns and continue to move the profession forward.
Each month, CUPA-HR General Counsel Ira Shepard provides an overview of some labor and employment law cases and regulatory actions with implications for the higher ed workplace. Here’s the latest from Ira. 
On June 6, Peter B. Robb, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, issued guidance to regional directors on how to evaluate workplace rules and handbooks. The guidance applies to handbooks in both union and nonunion workplaces at private-sector employers, including private colleges and universities. 
Each month, CUPA-HR General Counsel Ira Shepard provides an overview of some labor and employment law cases and regulatory actions with implications for the higher ed workplace. Here’s the latest from Ira. 
Research has shown that women and minorities each face their own challenges related to equal pay and representation in the higher ed workforce — women working in higher ed leadership earn less than White men; women are underrepresented in higher-paying, more prestigious positions in American colleges and universities; and minorities are underrepresented, particularly in high-level higher ed jobs, and underpaid in the majority of campus jobs. But how do these inequities intersect for women of color? 
According to just-released findings from CUPA-HR’s 2018 Staff in Higher Education Survey, skilled crafts workers (who hold jobs like electrician, carpenter, machinist and metalworker) make up the smallest percentage of the staff workforce in higher ed institutions (at just 7 percent), but jobs in that area are growing at nearly triple the rate of office/clerical and service/maintenance positions combined.