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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...
...Rick Santorum, R-Pa., also pushed for the Senate Finance Committee to conduct an investigation of Ford, its funding and its tax-exempt status...
...recognize that we did not have a complete picture of the activities, organizations and people involved,” she wrote. “Ford trustees, officers and staff were disgusted by the vicious anti-Semitic activity seen at Durban...
...Hyman, along with provosts from the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Cornell, sent the foundations a letter protesting the potential infringement on academic freedom posed by the new language. Several of the universities then moved ahead in talks with officials at Ford on compromise language to eliminate some of the most objectionable wording...