The Committee on Academic Integrity, first convened in fall 2010 to investigate the climate of academic honesty at Harvard, presented a host of preliminary proposals to rework the University’s approach to academic integrity at the monthly faculty meeting Tuesday.

Chief among those early recommendations is an honor code, which Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said he hopes would present clearer expectations about academic honesty to students and deter inappropriate collaboration and outright cases of cheating within the College.

“We are looking in some sense to reset our relationship with our students,” Harris said. How an honor code might be best implemented is not yet clear, he added, citing a wide range of approaches taken by other schools with similar policies.

“[We recognize that] academic integrity is not magically transformed by an honor code,” Harris said. “We are mindful of the fact that often many of us take for granted that students know everything that they need to know about the expectations in each of our individual disciplines.”

Harris offered a range of other possible suggestions, ranging from increased College programming on academic ethics to exam-making and grading rubrics for faculty. Harris said recommendations will be made final at next month’s faculty meeting and should be ready for implementation later in the spring.

—Staff writer Nicholas P. Fandos can be reached nicholasfandos@college.harvard.edu. Follow him on Twitter @npfandos.

—Staff writer Sabrina A. Mohamed can be reached smohamed@college.harvard.edu. Follow her on Twitter @sab_mohamed.