The College of DuPage’s lame-duck Board of Trustees has adopted a list of policies that had been opposed by faculty organizations as threatening shared governance and academic freedom.

The board adopted the policies last week, over the objection of faculty members and local residents who had urged it to delay acting on them until May, when newly elected board members take office, according to a local newspaper, The Naperville Sun. Three of the four people recently elected to the seven-member board also had urged it to delay acting on the proposed policies until they take office, which suggests that the board will revisit the policies at its May meeting.

One new policy adopted by the board — requiring faculty members to be unbiased in their classroom presentation of controversial subjects — closely resembles the “academic bill of rights” advocated by the conservative activist David Horowitz. College officials had stripped most such language from a policy that the board had considered, but then set aside for a lawyer’s review, in March.

Nancy Stanko, president of the College of DuPage Faculty Association, said today that her organization may challenge the board’s adoption of the policy by arguing that the language was reinserted into it without proper notice. —Peter Schmidt