Not to be overshadowed by their students, administrators at several universities are apparently launching their own protest movement. Secretary Betsy DeVos recently rescinded the Department of Education’s flawed 2011 Title IX guidance, issuing an interim directive on how colleges and universities should more fairly adjudicate sexual assault. At least a dozen schools have responded with defiance.

“Regardless of this new DOE action and interim guidance . . . we will not waver in our commitment to Title IX and its protections,”...