The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said it did nothing wrong in the case of Aaron Swartz, the internet activist who committed suicide as he faced trial on hacking charges.
The 26-year-old took his own life In January after being accused of breaking into university computers and illegally downloading millions of academic articles.
He was facing 13 felony charges and possibly decades behind bars.
The MIT review of its own behaviour in the case found that the school did not target Swartz, did not seek his federal prosecution and did not oppose a plea bargain.
But the 182-page report suggested the school had nothing to be proud of, either.
"By responding as we did, MIT missed an opportunity to demonstrate the leadership that we pride ourselves on," it said.
MIT "is respected for world-class work in information technology, for promoting open access to online information, and for dealing wisely with the risks for computer abuse", the report added.
MIT's president said the school's decisions were "made in good faith".
Swartz was a computer programming prodigy who as a teenager helped create the RSS web feed format, and co-founded the social news website Reddit.
He was not an MIT student, but his father is a consultant to the school and Swartz had various informal connections to it.
MIT played a 'central role' in Swartz' suicide, his father said Prosecutors said he was a thief who tapped into MIT's computer network to download millions of pay-for-access scholarly articles, which he planned to share publicly.
The case drew attention because Swartz was considered by some to be a pioneer of efforts to make online content freely available.
In the aftermath of his death, friends and supporters suggested MIT wrongly assisted federal prosecutors.
Hal Abelson, the MIT computer science and engineering professor who headed the inquiry, said MIT never made statements supporting the prosecution or the defence and never weighed in on potential punishments for Swartz.
But Swartz's father, Robert, said in a statement that the report showed MIT "played a central role in Aaron's suicide".
He said the school favoured the prosecution by providing access to witnesses that the defence did not get and by handing over information without subpoenas.
But Mr Swartz also applauded the university for "its commitment to self-examination".
His son's girlfriend, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, called the report a "whitewash".
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