This result apparently stems from the students’ appeal to FAS’s Faculty Council, provided for in disciplinary procedures for those required to withdraw or placed on probation for more than one term. The CRR established detailed procedures suited to its scope of responsibility and published detailed reports on its findings and disciplinary rulings (protecting students’ anonymity) for each case it considered. As proposed, the UCRR, under its new procedures, would at least result in uniform fact-finding in cases where violations of the University Statement are brought forth for investigation. Today’s announcement may well mark a recognition of the need to fix at least some part of Harvard’s University-level disciplinary processes and procedures as they have lately been deployed. The two-year trial period for the new procedures announced today may be fruitful and sufficient to address the problems identified now.