He distributed a copy of the text of many of his interviews to the committee members.

The last statistical analysis of the University's workforce analyzed only a single week in last February, and did not include subcontracted labor.

Even as University administrators presented more complete wage data, the Living Wage Campaign has broadened its focus to include increasing benefits as well as wages.

"This is a very different conversation then we had last spring at the Harvard Faculty Club," said Frank E.A. Sander, associate dean of Harvard Law School and a member of the faculty committee. "These are very different things."

In an interview after the meeting, Sander said that with time, both the students and Faculty members had become knowledgeable on wage issues, but that the increased focus on benefits still startled him.

"I was a little surprised: the Living Wage Campaign has suddenly become the Living Wage and Benefits Campaign," he said.

Mills said in view of the lack of consensus on the committee surrounding wage and benefit concerns, he no longer expects the committee to deliver its recommendations as early as he had thought. He now expects the committee to finish its work by the end of the spring semester.

The meetings, Mills said, often became "debating societies" because of the committee members' ideological differences.