Harvard University reversed the suspensions this week of five pro-Palestinian protesters after pressure from the school’s faculty.

The five protesters took part in a 20-day encamped occupation of Harvard Yard during the spring semester, but the Harvard College Administrative Board decided Tuesday to drop the suspensions and downgrade their punishments to probation, according to the Harvard Crimson.

The student newspaper, citing an anonymous source familiar with the disciplinary decisions, reported that the harshest probationary period of the five students is one semester, whereas the initial suspensions would have forced at least one student to withdraw for three semesters.

Harvard College also reduced the punishments of students who were initially placed on probation after involvement with the protests.

Reducing the punishments appears to be a reversal from the initial footing of the school, which saw the administrative body responsible for carrying out the school’s policies, the Administrative Board, strip degrees from 13 students at commencement in May. More than 1,000 people staged a walkout of the ceremony in protest of Harvard denying the 13 seniors their degrees.

Similar to many schools, disciplinary responses to students involved with the encampments attempted to walk a tightrope between critics such as the House Education and Workforce Committee, which has opened numerous investigations into what many say is antisemitic activity on campus, and the students and faculty who are much more politically aligned with the goals of the pro-Palestinian protesters.

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There has been an internal rift at the school as well, the Harvard Crimson reported, which pitted the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the school’s most powerful and largest faculty group, against the Administrative Board. The FAS chose to reinstate the 13 students who were being stripped of degrees back to the list of students who would receive them, forcing the Harvard Corporation, the school’s highest governing body, to choose whether to follow the recommendations of the FAS or the disciplinary board.