Anthony Scaramucci, whose brief tenure last summer as White House communications director ended after a profane phone call to a New Yorker reporter, resigned on Tuesday from an advisory board at Tufts University after several weeks of conflict with students.

Mr. Scaramucci said he was stepping down from the advisory board of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to spare Tufts, his alma mater, unnecessary scrutiny. But he stood by his threat to sue The Tufts Daily, a student newspaper, and one of its writers if the writer did not apologize for critical op-eds published this month.

“I thought it would be better for the school and better for me personally if we parted ways,” Mr. Scaramucci said in an interview on Tuesday. “It’s a school of law and diplomacy. I thought it was a diplomatic thing to do to bow out.”

Camilo A. Caballero, the graduate student who wrote the op-eds, said Mr. Scaramucci’s resignation was a victory for Tufts students, many of whom had called for the university to dismiss him from the board.