The report explains GSE developments in a series of areas, including faculty searches and appointments, instruction and evaluation, expansion of the Dean's Office, student services and advising, admissions efforts and improving dialogue between students and faculty.

At Monday's rally, participants read a list of demands they had presented to the administration and faculty in an April 25 letter.

Although GSE boasts one of the most diverse faculties at the University, both students and administrators agree there is still work to be done. The school's 111-member faculty is 53 percent female, and 23 percent are scholars of color. During the past four years, between 27 and 29 percent of admitted classes are students of color.

In the letter, students said they had been discouraged by the lack of progress towards diversifying the faculty and the curriculum since GSE released their Working Paper on Diversity in spring 1997.

They also said the rally and their demands were a move to bring attention to an issue they feel the administration ignores.

In the opening of the report, Murphy said the administration's previously slow response in putting out a report was due to miscommunication.

"We were concentrating our energies on addressing a number of recommendations in the report, while the report's authors were waiting for a formal response," he wrote. "I hope that in the future we all can do a better job of keeping each other informed, and that we can move beyond this misunderstanding to the important work at hand."