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.

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March 2021

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.

February 2021

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...

August 2020

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 ...

August 2020

Interactive Graphic: The Higher Ed HR Workforce

This interactive graphic explores the HR workforce in higher education, including HR staff size, representation, pay and...

June 2020

The Black and White Higher Education Workforce

This interactive graphic explores the representation and pay of Black employees across the higher education workforce an...

May 2020

Faculty in the Health Professions

This brief explores the state of the full-time health professions faculty workforce, including composition, overall grow...

January 2020

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...

November 2019

Focus on Psychology Faculty

This brief provides a snapshot of psychology faculty data: how their salaries compare to other disciplines, the represen...

October 2019

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 ...

August 2019

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 ...

July 2019

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...

February 2019

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...

December 2018

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...