Information on employees in Connecticut's 22 public institutions of higher education in fall 1981 is presented. Comparisons are made to employment patterns as of fall 1979. Findings include the following: full-time employment in Connecticut public institutions was down 1.4 percent in fall 1981 from 2 years earlier; the number of full-time minority employees also declined 1.4 percent over the same period; the number of full-time female employees increased 1.4 percent, while the number of male employees decreased 4 percent; the largest single occupational category continued to be faculty (3,502, 32.7 percent), a group whose numbers have remained constant from 1979; the number of minorities in faculty positions has grown 5.4 percent; the number of female faculty members increased by 5 percent, while the number of male faculty members declined 1.6 percent; growth has occurred in the executive/managerial and the professional nonfaculty categories; the number of minorities in the executive/managerial occupational category declined by 11.1 percent, while the number of women in this category grew by 21.6 percent and the number of men declined by 1.4 percent; the number of faculty with tenure increased by 32 from fall 1979 and by fall 1981--70 percent of all full-time faculty held tenure in Connecticut public institutions; tenure rates at Connecticut 4-year public institutions are high when compared to national averages; minorities comprised 5.5 percent of all full-time faculty in fall 1981, compared to 5.2 percent in fall 1979; while the representation of minorities among faculty is increasing slowly, 49.5 percent of minority faculty are of Asian and other backgrounds, rather than black and Hispanic. (SW)