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Working Papers
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)