The school has no immediate plans to convene a formal committee to consider the Allston move.

Internal planning is done by a committee that Executive Dean J. Bonnie Newman organized even before the Allston purchases were announced.

The committee has looked at several options to solve their space crunch, according to Mena, including a new building on their existing campus, thought plans to fund the construction are still not settled.

Harvard Divinity School

One of Harvard’s smallest graduate schools, Harvard Divinity School (HDS) has solved its space issues for the near-term, and is less likely to move to Allston. It has no representative on the Physical Planning Committee.

Further, it has not officially organized any committees to analyze a move to Allston campus, nor has it been asked to do so by the administration.

Over the past two years the school has finished renovating its library and converting Divinity Hall from dormitories into offices and classrooms, temporarily alleviating the space crunch.

“We have moved ourselves out of the category of ‘space crunch,’” says Timothy D. Cross, associate dean for finance and administration at HDS.

“We have no extra space, though, nor do we have space in which the school could grow,” he says.

Due to continued expansion, Cross says, HDS will probably face another space crunch within 15 years.

The school has kept an open mind about a move.

“We’re not opposed to thinking about [the move],” Cross says.

“We will talk at some point this spring at a faculty meeting about the space issues at the school, and will probably convene a small committee to think about what our space needs will be,” he says

—Matthew F. Quirk contributed to the reporting of this article.

—Staff writer Nicholas F. Josefowitz can be reached at josefow@fas.harvard.edu.