Temple University has extended its recent fundraising efforts after receiving three new gifts, totaling $7.5 million, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
The largest of the three gifts is a $5 million donation that will be used to launch the Oller Rule of Law Center at Temple’s Beasley School of Law. It will be located Terra Hall on South Broad Street.
According to Richard Oller, the new Rule of Law Center will aim to address the lack of understanding of some of the core elements of the roots of democracy.
“The objective was to utilize the resources that are so well-placed already within Temple University and the Beasley School of Law…to create a robust center that would be both for scholarship, for advocacy in terms of democracy…and also be a footprint in Philadelphia where it connects to the city where it all started and the history that we’re all working to preserve,” said Oller.
Meanwhile, Temple also obtained a $1.5 million for the Barnett College of Public Health to establish the new Irvine Family Impact Center, and another $1 million donation to fund scholarships for pharmacy students.
Read more about the three new gifts Temple received and what will become of the new funding in the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on PHILADELPHIA Today in May 2026.
