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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...
Last April, 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...
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...
...want or intend to interfere with discussions in classrooms, faculty publications, student remarks in chat rooms, or other communications that express the views of the individual(s) and not the institution,” the letter says. “Our grant letter relates only to the official speech and conduct of the university and to speech or conduct that the university explicitly endorses...
After initially standing by his words, apologizing only for a “misunderstanding,” Summers reversed course on Wednesday night in an open-letter to the Harvard community...