The crime affected the college at all levels, said Mr. Todd, 25, not least that students were afraid to venture off the 100-acre campus.
Richard C. Levin, the university's president, said the faculty had no vote on the project because it would not affect the college.
The change, which mostly affects the college class of 2000, has admission officers scrambling to figure out how to compare the old scores with the new ones.
But she also identifies fundamental misperceptions, misunderstandings, and mistakes on both sides of the educational divide that negatively affect the college experience.
"Summers has done a very good job at the beginning of visiting groups of people, indicating by his presence that he's willing to learn about issues that affect the college," Mr. Cox said.
Brand and other N.C.A.A. members outlined a list of initiatives intended to affect the college athletic culture, which is increasingly being perceived as win at all costs with little regard for academic performance.
She said that she had repeatedly expressed concerns that the changes would affect "the college's academic quality and financial health," and that she recently realized that "the structural transformations intended to fundamentally alter decision-making in and for the college cannot be stopped".
This could affect the college major opportunities that are available and alter the relative attractiveness of specific majors.
While the plan won't be completed until May, that should not affect the college's accreditation, said Andreea Serban, vice chancellor of educational services and technology.
K-12 and higher education institutions must think more critically about how wealth affects the college-going process – and beyond the characteristics I aim to control for in this study, like academic achievement, and parent, student, and peer expectations.
