Summers was to receive a copy of the study at his door on Tuesday, Redmond said.

Summers, through McNeil, declined to comment on the report yesterday.

According to Redmond, graduate student unionization is the first step toward increasing faculty diversity, in order to “get the ball rolling.”

After that, the report prescribed “bargaining collectively” among professors, and not just student teachers.

The report claimed that women and minorities are underpaid, despite holding the same degrees as their white male counterparts.

“Unless universities are compelled fundamentally to restructure certain features of access,. employment and promotion, no amount of oversight or diversity initiatives will suffice,” the report said.

But many are not convinced that unionization is the solution.

Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman, an organizer of the National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) conference where Summers made his now-famous remarks, expressed doubt that such a plan could work at large universities like Harvard or Yale.

“Initially as an economist, I’m dubious,” Freeman said, though he added that he thought unionization could be “feasible” under certain circumstances.

But he said that while unions were effective at bargaining for health care and other benefits, he did not see how GESO proposed to make the jump from graduate student unions to faculty diversity.

“If we’re really talking faculty, it’s hard to see how the graduate student union affects the faculty,” he said.