Tejas Billa (pictured above) recently told Fox News Digital the institution's left-leaning bias in academics isolates some students on campus.
"Part of that is it's just a juicy subject," he noted about the recent media attention. "But I think also it's that there were a lot of these sort of instances of political bias, of antisemitism that just kept building until they really reached a breaking point in the last couple of years, and people realized how bad the situation has gotten and how it's actually impacting students a whole ton."
Billa believes the partisanship, particularly in the social sciences, has been festering since the 2010s.
"I would absolutely say it's systematic," he told Fox. "We had our task force looking into antisemitism. They called it politicized instruction, and that was what they found throughout a lot of the curriculum, particularly around Middle East, politics, [and] religion."
The case study of Israel and Palestine, for example, has only been taught from one side.
Billa has not personally experienced left-leaning bias in his own courses because he is selective about what he takes, but there are documented instances where professors will reschedule their classes to allow students to attend a left-wing protest.
He thinks the tendency to lean to the left is just an innate property of higher education.
"But the degree and the sort of partisanship that exists now is really harming people's education," the student added. "It's really absolutely isolating students. It's making students feel they're not welcome in certain departments or certain courses, and to be honest, they're not."
Billa added that the remedy for that is for the administration to "take a step back, focus on the education more than the activism," and really emphasize that everyone should have the same core values and priorities in education.
