RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
CUPA-HR’s research publications and interactive graphics highlight trends and issues around higher ed workforce planning, pay equity, representation of women and racial/ethnic minorities, and more.
How Will Minimum Wage Changes Impact Higher Ed?
This CUPA-HR research brief explores through several different lenses the impact of increasing the minimum wage to $15.
The Higher Ed Skilled Craft Workforce
This brief focuses on pay, aging, diversity and equity in the skilled craft workforce, as well as opportunities for grow...
The Higher Ed HR Workforce
In this report, we examine the people and positions that make up the higher ed HR workforce, including demographics, HR ...
Interactive Graphic: The Higher Ed HR Workforce
This interactive graphic explores the HR workforce in higher education, including HR staff size, representation, pay and...
The Black and White Higher Education Workforce
This interactive graphic explores the representation and pay of Black employees across the higher education workforce an...
Faculty in the Health Professions
This brief explores the state of the full-time health professions faculty workforce, including composition, overall grow...
The Aging of Tenure-Track Faculty in Higher Ed
This report examines how faculty are distributed by age, how age and rank affect salary, the representation of women and...
Focus on Psychology Faculty
This brief provides a snapshot of psychology faculty data: how their salaries compare to other disciplines, the represen...
The Impact of the FLSA Overtime Rule on Higher Education
This report details the history of the salary threshold, changes higher ed institutions made based on the 2016 proposed ...
The Challenges of an Aging Higher Ed Workforce
This brief focuses on the implications of the aging staff workforce in higher education, specifically professionals and ...
Diversity in Higher Education Information Technology
This brief provides a snapshot of diversity and pay equity in higher education IT, a look at the aging of IT administrat...
Impact of the Economic Recession on Student Enrollment and Faculty Composition: 2003-2018
Many colleges and universities faced significant fiscal challenges after the 2008 recession. This report explores the im...
A Snapshot of the Staff Workforce in Community and Technical Colleges
This brief provides data takes on staff composition and benefits, as well as the representation and pay of women and min...