We use data from 2015-2016 to document faculty representation and wage gaps by race-ethnicity and gender in six fields at selective public universities. Consistent with widely available information, Black, Hispanic, and female professors are underrepresented and White and Asian professors are overrepresented in our data. Disadvantaged minority and…

Data from the Connecticut Department of Higher Education and the National Association of Colleges and Employers were used to explore effects of college major on differences by race and gender in estimated starting salaries of 2006 bachelor degree recipients from Connecticut colleges and universities. Females' relatively high presence in majors…

A study assessed the employment and training needs of Hispanics in Connecticut. As part of a research project entitled the Survey of Hispanics in Connecticut, trained bilingual interviewers surveyed 500 randomly selected Hispanic households in seven major cities in Connecticut. This survey sample represented approximately 1.5 percent of the total…