Amoral and greedy – that’s how the University of Oxford has been left looking following revelations published in the Financial Times that it actively solicited Sackler family until very recently.
What happens at Oxford matters because, along with Cambridge, it ranks as one of the world’s leading public universities. They set the bar for state-funded institutions around the world. The Sackler affair begs the question: how a sophisticated institution with a highly respected fundraising operation such as Oxford could have made such a misjudgement?
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