For his part, Harris said that he did not see virtue in asking faculty members to sign a similar oath on all the work they create, but that they should play a role.

“I think the compact is again in making sure that we are presenting our students with the best-thought-out prompts, problems, assignments, whatever they may be,” he said.

Harris noted that the Academic Integrity Committee began its work in the 2010-2011 academic year, stressing that it “was not in response to any specific case or scandal.” Still, to some, the committee’s efforts have taken on greater significance in the aftermath of the Government 1310 cheating scandal, the largest at Harvard in recent memory.

Tuesday’s meeting also included the presentation of an FAS committee report on professors’ rights with regards to the dissemination of their course materials online.

The report—which dates from 2000 and was written to inform the administration’s review of the policy on outside activities outside the University—comes in response to a memo released by administrators last February that raised concerns among faculty members regarding the ownership of their intellectual property related to teaching on the Internet.

James T. Engell ’73, the committee’s chair, said that faculty members should be allowed to continue to publish lecture videos and course materials online and explained that “ongoing engagement between a faculty member and students in any institution or organization outside of Harvard” should be considered as teaching a course elsewhere. In particular, Engell said that professors should retain the right to teach online courses on non-Harvard platforms.

“There should be a sense of competition in online education,” Engell said, though he noted that by choosing to teach on other platforms, faculty members would give up the ability to ask the University for help if copyright right issues arose.

Administrators, including FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, will use the committee’s recommendations to help update the existing policy, which University President Drew G. Faust called “outdated.”