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...five-page letter later that month, Berresford pledged to Nadler that she would improve the “oversight and transparency of Ford programming” with new grant language and stricter oversight of grantees...
...October 2003, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., sent Ford President Susan V. Berresford a letter co-signed by 20 other congressmen urging her to ensure that Ford money was not supporting anti-Semitic activities. In a November 2003 meeting, Berresford promised Nadler that Ford would not fund anti-Semitic groups...
Ultimately, Berresford killed an initial compromise, although the proposal had seemed to command the support of many universities and even some of her staff, Saller says...
...What we discovered in the end was that the president of Ford, Susan Berresford, was not prepared to accept our suggestion…I had the sense that not everyone at Ford was of one view,” Saller says. “We thought that the model of the MacArthur Foundation was a reasonable model, and that’s one that imposes a condition that we obey relevant antiterrorism legislation...
Hyman says that Harvard “did make several runs at language,” and that Berresford and University President Lawrence H. Summers discussed the issue. Summers says the two “had a good conversation about our views on anything that restricts academic freedom” but declined to comment further...