After voting to oust Mr. Fernandez in February, the board debated how to set up the process this time.

Beginning Wednesday afternoon and ending early today, the board debated whether it should make public the report's embarrassing details.

Ms. Simmons declined to discuss the substance of the proposed revisions, since the board is still debating them.

For years the board debated whether to admit minority students and, later, girls.

At the time, the board was debating a hotly contested issue involving a proposal for improvements at a small airport adjoining Mr. Forbes's estate.

Confindustria, an umbrella group for industrialists, has become so uneasy that its board recently debated how to guard itself against infiltration.

The board also debated whether to file for bankruptcy protection immediately.

"The board will debate and vote to accept or reject," he said.

The board is debating whether to delay a plan to raise the grade required to pass such exams to 65, from 55.

So even as the board debated the merits of restoring the building, the members could not bring themselves to actually meet inside it.