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...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...
...view as I understand it was that Ford didn’t want to give grants to any institution that didn’t accept their basic Ford values,” he adds. “What we found problematic about that is that her view of what constituted bigotry and our view of what constituted bigotry might differ...
After a new round of negotiations, Harvard came to an agreement over the summer under which Ford issued a side letter reaffirming its commitment to academic freedom. Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins and Chicago eventually accepted similar resolutions with Ford, according to Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn...
Columbia kept negotiating, successfully pushing Ford for a narrower definition of what constitutes the school’s official speech, according to Columbia Provost Alan Brinkley...
Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology Theda Skocpol, who is working on a Ford-funded project through the Center for American Political Studies on the moral aspects of American women’s civil rights a nd social reform movements, says that she opposed the new language, even though it would never have affected her. The negotiations did interrupt her funding, but Hyman’s office provided money for her and other grantees in the interim...