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...April, Hyman joined provosts at eight other elite schools in firing off a response to the foundations, telling Ford that the new wording might “create an unfortunate barrier” to its work with universities...
...nine months after the beginning of protracted negotiations, most of those schools have accepted compromises with Ford, which agreed to write side letters to the universities clarifying that the restrictions are only intended to apply to “official speech...
...concerned about Ford trying to dictate to us rules about bigotry—what I’m worried about is the different interest groups around the country using this as leverage with Ford,” University of Chicago Provost Richard P. Saller says. “I worry that even if Ford’s position is tolerable, they will become a focal point for some of this angry lobbying...
...adopting the new language, Ford was responding to charges that its money had been used by some grantees to advance anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas. These charges focused largely on the actions of Ford grantees at the 2001 United Nations Conference Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. As a result, Ford had also faced substantial pressure from the American Jewish community to address the issue...
...made these changes in response to heightened concerns among the public and policymakers about violence, terrorism, and bigotry and the possible misuse of philanthropic money for these purposes,” three Ford vice presidents wrote in a January 2004 memo to grantees...