A logit model with interactions for predicting major gift donors

We provide a new statistical model developed from the alumni database at North-western University for identifying potential major gift donors. Our logit model with interactions predicts which individuals will give $10,000 or more over three years using CHAID (Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detection) combined with logit analysis. Our work goes beyond our earlier research (Lindahl and Winship, 1992) by providing a more effective means of selecting fund-raising prospects. The critical new component in our model is the inclusion of interactions between past giving and other variables. Specifically, we find that for individuals with different past giving records different variables are important. Our results show that prospects with a low past giving level will rarely give gifts over $10,000.     

Use of Criminal Background Checks in Counselor Education

To conduct an initial investigation into the use of criminal background checks and related issues in counselor education programs, surveys were sent to the contacts from 50 programs accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (2001). The results of this pilot study highlight the need for more research, discussion, and discourse about the benefits and disadvantages of using criminal background checks.     

Homi Bhabha

Homi K. Bhabha is not only a major postcolonial theorist, but he has also become an important thinker for education. This article reviews the major themes of Bhabha’s work as it applies to education. The article also cautions us that the pressures in scholarship are to “reify” thinkers and their concepts and then “spend” those concepts like currency in the academic marketplace. This form of commodification is antithetical to progressive scholarly work. The article encourages a resistance to this form of commodification through a more complex engagement with the theories developed by Bhabha and an appreciation of the contradictions in the process of that engagement.     

Internet Indiscipline: Two Approaches to Making a Field

This essay outlines two approaches to Internet research as an area of scholarship, the disciplined and the “indisciplined.” The former approach involves departments and curricula and is more stable in the long term but the chances of success are low. The latter approach is more flexible, emphasizing interaction between scholars and innovation without classics and constraints.     

Reprints and Other Notes

Harold Lloyd and Wesley W. Stout, An American Comedy originally published in 1928 and to be re-issued this Spring by Benjamin Blom Inc., 4 West Mount Eden Ave., Bronx, N. Y. 10452 for $W75–copies being available to teachers at half price)     

Global pressures,local reactions: higher education and neo‐liberal economic policies

As a summary piece, this essay describes more fully the wider globalizing context in which both students and institutions of higher education are now located. It explores three transitions that signal this new configuration: the creation of new information and media technologies; the transformation of time and space; and the expansion of the culture of consumption and the consumption of culture. The essay then discusses the four ethnographic articles in light of these new social realities.     

First in our hearts

Earlier English Drama. Edited and Arranged for Acting. American Edition Revised by Thomas Whitfield Baldwin. New York: Thomas Nelson &; Sons. 1929. Pp. xx + 304.

The Environment of Three‐Year‐Old Children. By Dorothy Van Alstyle. New York : Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, 1929. Pp. vii + 108.

How Students Are Working Their Way Through School. By Augustus B. Dorough. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1929. Pp. 133.

The Sewing Book. By Blanche E. Hyde. New York: The Century Co., 1928. Pp. xxii + 348.

Greek and Roman Mythology. By William Sherwood Fox. Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1928. Pp. lxii + 402.

Administration of Pupil Personnel. By Arch O. Heck. Boston: Ginn &; Co., 1929. Pp. xx + 479.

The Relative Merits of Conventional and Imaginative Types of Problems in Arithmetic. By Harry G. Wheat. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1929. (Contribution to educ., No. 359).

Enriched Teaching of Physical Education in the High School. By Maxie N. Woodring and Norma Schwendener. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1929. Pp. ix + 143. (Enriched Teaching ser., No. 5.)

A Study of the Sociability of Elementary School Children. By Jni‐Ching Hsia. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1928. (Contributions to educ. No. 322.) Pp. 64.

Health Readers; Teacher's Manual; Guide for a Health Program, Grades 1–3. By Jessie I. Lummis and Willidell Schawe Yonkers: World Book Company, 1929. Pp. viii + 196.

The Psychology of Adolescence. By Fowler D. Brooks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Pp. xxiii + 652.

The Unique Character of American Secondary Education. By Charles Hubbard Judd. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928. Pp. 63. (Inglis Lecture, 1928.)

Mechanical Drafting Handbook. By Frank R. Kepler. Milwaukee, Wis. : Bruce Publishing Company, 1928. Pp. 127.

The Elementary School Library. By William A. King. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Pp. xiii + 224.

Leisure and Its Use. By Herbert L. May and Dorothy Petgen. New York : A. S. Barnes and Company, 1928. Pp. xx + 268.

Books of Stories. Edited by Emily H. Obear. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1928. Pp. vii + 428. (Academy classics for junior high schools.) A well chosen anthology of short stories for school use.

The Black Arrow. Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited by Dorothy L. Holm. N. Y. : Allyn and Bacon, 1926. Pp. vi + 436. (Academy classics for junior high school.)

Story and Study Readers; Primer, First‐Fifth Readers. By John W. Withers, Charles E. Skinner and Mathilde C. Gecks. Richmond, Va. : Johnson Publishing Company, 1928. 6V.

Adventures in Health. By Nathalie Forbes Moulton. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. Pp. x + 140. Illustrated by Eloise Burns.

1000 and One; the Blue Book of Non‐Theatrical Films. ‐Edited by Nelson L. Greene and others. Chicago: The Educational Scheen, Inc., 1929. 6th ed.

Far Away Hills. By Maud Petershaw and Miska Petershaw. Comp. by Wilhelmina Harper and Aymer J. Hamilton. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1928. Pp. xiii + 366. (Treasure Trails, for grade five.)

Buried Treasure. Comp. by Sophia McEntyre and Marietta Voorhees. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Pp. xiv + 190.

Treasure Trove. Comp. by Sophia McEntrye and Marietta Voorhees. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Pp. xiv + 175.

Treasure Trails—Far Away Hills. By Wilhelmina Harper and Aymer J. Hamilton. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928.

The Sunshine School. By J. Mace Andress and Mabel C. Bragg. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1928. Pp. ix + 185. (Story ser. in health). Illustrated by Kayren Draper and Cornelia J. Hoff.

Buried Treasure, and Treasure Trove. By Sophia McEntyre and Marietta Voorhees. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.

The Human Body and Its Care. By S. Weir Newmayer and Edwin C. Broome. Cincinnati: American Book Company, 1928. Pp. vi + 314. (Health and happiness series).

The New Third Reader. By Eva A. Smedley and Martha C. Olsen. Chicago : Hall and McCreary Company. 1929.

The New Healthy Living. Books I and II. By Charles Edward A. Winslow and Mary L. Hahn. New York: Charles E. Merrill and Company, 1929. 2V. Pp. viii + 312; vi + 438.

The Box Book. By Hazel F. Showalter. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Pp. xi + 185. Illustrated by the author (Work and play ser.)

Music Appreciation Readers. Books I to V. By Hazel Gertrude Kinscella. Lincoln: The University Publishing Company, 1928. 5V. Illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock.

In Field and Forest. By Fannie Wyche Dunn and Eleanor Troxell. Evanston: Row, Peterson and Company, 1928. Pp. 288. (Mother Nature series, book 3.)

New Wide Awake Junior; an Easy Primer. By Clara Murray. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. Pp. vii + 113. (New Wide Awake Readers.)

New Wide Awake Primer. By Clara Murray. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. Pp. v + 112.

New Wide Awake Readers. By Clara Murray. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. 4V.

Modern Archery. By Arthur W. Lambert, Jr. New. York : A. S. Barnes and Company, 1929. Pp. xiv + 306.

Children's Own Readers; Pets. By Mary E. Penneu, and Alice M. Cusack. Boston : Ginn and Company, 1929.

My Book (I to V). By Marjorie Hardy. Chicago: Wheeler Publishing Company, 1929.