“Colleges Object to New Wording in Ford Grants”
Daniel Golden
The Wall Street Journal, May 4, 2004
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In response to claims that the Ford Foundation, one of the largest private donors to American universities, contributed funds to an organization that sponsored anti-Israel activities, both the Ford and Rockefeller foundations added clauses to their grant agreements that prohibited funds from being directly or indirectly spent to support terrorism, violence, or bigotry. Several major universities protested this clause because it could interfere with cultural events and studies on campuses and allows non-academic organizations to control the funding of universities.
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