Your alma mater needs you. (fund raising at Oxford University)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: October 29, 1988 | Copyright information

CAN Oxford dons learn how to raise cash from the private sector? Forget it, say those who think they do nothing but swill port in their abundant spare time. Of course, says Mr Henry Drucker, an enthusiastic American former politics don who is director of a five-year campaign to raise 220m-pounds for Oxford University launched this week.

Private donations have been a mainstay of Britain's ancient universities for centuries-Oxford's Bodleian Library was endowed by the then Duke of Gloucester in 1447. But most of these donations have gone to the independent colleges; rich alumni ...

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