NERCHE's Working Papers discuss a range of educational and workplace concerns from issues in general education to the faculty labor market. If you'd like to order any of the  working papers listed below, click here.  You can also download some for free.

Institutional Transformation Series

• An Examination of Multi-Institutional Projects (#23)

General Education Series

• The Buck Stops Here: Outside Grants and the General Education Curriculum Change Process  (free!)
• Case Study #1: Weservall University  (free!)
• Case Study #2: Littleton State College  (free!)
• Case Study #3: Mystic College (free!)
• Implementing General Education: Initial Findings (free!)
• Reviewing and Renewing General Education (#24)

Faculty Labor Market Series

• Assessing Faculty Shortages in Comprehensive Colleges and Universities  (free!)
• The Characteristics of Faculty In Comprehensive Institutions (free!)
• Opportunity Knocked: The Origins of Comprehensive Colleges and Universities  (free!)
• Organizational Responses to the Labor Market: A Study of Faculty Searches in Comprehensive Colleges and Universities (#12)
• The Status of Black and Hispanic Faculty in Massachusetts Colleges and Universities  (free!)

Professional Service Series

• Bridging Two Worlds: Professional Service and Service Learning (#17)
• Does Service Learning Have a Future? (#18)
• "Knowledge Utilization" Universities: A Paradigm for Applying Academic Expertise to Social and Environmental  Problems (#3)
• The Mission of Metropolitan Universities in the Utilization of Knowledge: A Policy Analysis  (free!)
• New Concepts of Professional Expertise: Liberal Learning as Part of Career-Oriented Education  (free!)
• Rewarding Faculty Professional Service (#19)
• The Status of Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach in New England (#20)
• Organizational Structures for  Community Engagement (#21)
• The Institution as Citizen: How Colleges and Universities Can Enhance Their Civic Roles (#22)
• Scholarship Unbound: Assessing Service as Scholarship in Promotion and Tenure Decisions (#25)

Organizational Change Series

• The Academic Workplace: Perception vs. Reality   (free!)
• TQM in Higher Education: A Preliminary Look at Ten Boston Area Institutions  (free!)
• Whither TQM: Has Higher Education Interest Peaked? Ten Boston Area Colleges One Year Later (#13)

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