The University of Oxford’s most generous benefactor has put an additional $50-million on the table, promising to match donations of at least $1- million over the next year to the university’s James Martin 21st Century School.
In 2005, Mr. Martin, a 1955 graduate of Oxford’s Keble College, donated $100-million to his alma mater to finance a new school to examine problems and opportunities of the 21st century through interdisciplinary study.
“At the time it was set up, there was almost no interdisciplinary scholarship in any university,” Mr. Martin said in a telephone interview this afternoon. “It’s doing so well that now is the moment to put a foot on the accelerator, even though, if you were to just look at the economy, you would probably do nothing for the next two years.”
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