Six weeks after students first demanded a greater attention to diversity at the Graduate School of Education (GSE), Dean Jerome T. Murphy announced he will implement 21 "concrete" changes either immediately or in the fall.

At a meeting with about 100 faculty members, administrators and students yesterday morning, Murphy presented changes ranging from making more use of class evaluations to putting out an annual report on diversity to funding a student retreat to discuss diversity.

Murphy said the meeting provided students with an update on the status of recommendations that came out of a May 26 meeting of the GSE's Standing Committee on Diversity. The meeting was prompted by a letter of demands that students presented to the administration on April 25, which was followed by a May 3 rally.

At the May 26 meeting, students and faculty split into small groups to discuss various issues related to diversity, including faculty recruitment, curriculum and student services.

Most of the changes announced yesterday came out of the May 26 discussion.

"We're either going to start doing them now or at the beginning of next year," Murphy said.

The changes have already begun, he added.

Two days ago, one department revised to its advising system in response to student complaints.

Beyond the items to which Murphy made a "commitment to action," he listed a number of items, such as student involvement in faculty searches, to which he made a "commitment to consider."

Student leader Harold F. Smith, a doctoral student, said students have demanded more power in the school's governance.

"The biggest issue was the role of students in governing, decision making," Smith said. "But that's something up for discussion."

The role of GREs in the admissions process is also on the list of policies to be reviewed.

Murphy's consideration of the GRE policy represents a 180-degree turn from his original position.

On May 6, Murphy released a memorandum addressing the demands that Students for Diversity sent him in the April 25 letter.

Abandoning the GRE in the application process was one of the requests he was most strongly against.