But the University said it would move immediately on some of the task forces’ proposals, including a program on leadership and diversity focused on educating the University’s top administrators at their annual summer retreat.

The search to fill the new senior vice provost position will begin soon, and Provost Steven E. Hyman said the appointment was likely to come from within the University.

“I think people are very desirous of getting moving on these recommendations,” Hyman said, “and I think it’s important that it be somebody who understands our culture.”

In a conference call with reporters and top administrators arranged by the University this afternoon, Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was asked about the process of following through on the reports’ myriad recommendations.

“We’re laughing here at the horror of thinking we have to implement all this,” Faust said.

—Staff writer Zachary M. Seward can be reached at seward@fas.harvard.edu.