Committee chair and Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’52 could not be reached for comment last night. But two weeks ago, Verba declined to discuss the specific points of the report, but said it gave careful context to its recommendations.

“The important thing about the report is [that] it’s not just a series of recommendations but a series of recommendations with an analysis of how we got there,” Verba said two weeks ago.

And Cohen added that the report was cautiously written.

“It does make a recommendation, and then it says there are options within that,” Cohen said. “There was a lot of attention given to the way these things were worded.”

The report was originally scheduled to go before the Faculty Council on March 10, when it was on the agenda for the now-cancelled March Faculty meeting. But Verba said the committee opted to take two extra weeks with the report when the time constraint of the March Faculty meeting disappeared.

“We were putting the final touches on the report, or at least having the various members look at it and making changes and the like,” Verba said at the time. “It was very close to the wire.”

—Staff writer Stephen M. Marks can be reached at marks@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Lauren A. E. Schuker schuker@fas.harvard.edu.