The national faculty group, alongside a local affiliate, asked a judge to block the directives and rule them unconstitutional.
“Yale has the resources, stature, and responsibility to stand firm,” the American Association of University Professors and other groups said.
Bakersfield College agreed to not require Daymon Johnson to use diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility principles in his teaching or scholarship.
The college transformed in the 1970s into an ecologically minded liberal arts institution. Now former faculty want to sustain that ethos in a smaller version.