A committee appointed by Rutgers University’s president last summer to look into questions raised about the university’s athletics department issued a report late Wednesday that faults both the president, Richard L. McCormick, and the university’s Board of Governors for inadequate supervision of the department. The university was operating with “an uninformed board on some specific important issues and limited presidential leadership,” the 35-page report says among its conclusions.

The report looks at a number of decisions, including deals with a sports-marketing company and with the head football coach, that were carried out by the department with limited involvement of other university officials. Some of those deals have come under intense news-media scrutiny, particularly in a series of articles by The Star-Ledger this past summer on the cost of big-time sports at Rutgers.

The committee that prepared the report included members of Rutgers’s governing boards and business leaders from around the state. In the report, the committee found that “inadequate internal controls” had contributed to problems or the perception of problems arising from the department’s policies and practicies, but it did not find that any illegal or unethical activities had occurred.

Mr. McCormick, who announced last month a series of steps to increase the university’s oversight of the department, issued a written statement listing a number of immediate actions he would take in response to the committee’s recommendations. “The university is more committed than ever to the values of accountability, transparency, and rigorous adherence to established procedures for decision-making,” he said. —Charles Huckabee