After two weeks of growing tension between Syracuse University students and the administration, they’re trying to reach common ground.

"A lot of individual conversations with students, a lot of individual conversations with parents, conversations in groups trying to get at the root of what students are needing and wanting,” said Syracuse University Associate Vice President and Dean of Students Marianne Thomson.

The students presented the administration with a list of demands. Chancellor Kent Syverud reached an agreement with the Jewish students.

The Chancellor sent back revisions to three of the recommendations that have not been signed yet. 

That includes one where students asked to choose a roommate based on "mutual interests and identities."

"That's a very complex question that seems simple at the get-go,” said Thompson. “We need to talk to our students, lots of different students, not just the ones we've been talking to the past week and a half."

Students say they reject his revisions and are calling for his resignation.

Thomson says they want to work together and do this right.

"It would have been a lot easier to say, ‘We heard you, we will do this, my whole leadership team is going to work on this,’” said Thomson. “Instead, the chancellor wanted to get specific, so we can get to the heart of the issues."

Thomson says this is just the beginning.

"We're going to have more things we need to talk about,” said Thomson. “This isn't a box you check. We don't do these things and then we're done with diversity."

The administration hopes to create a more welcoming and inclusive campus. They say they'll continue to talk to students over the Thanksgiving break.

Students say they are done occupying the Barnes Center for now, but the fight for change isn't over.