Amid the political chaos on campus, conservative Steven Hayward is faring quite well at the University of California at Berkeley. That’s the report from FoxNews.com.

Steven Hayward is used to being the odd man out.

In his more than 40 years as an academic and political scientist, Hayward continually has operated on the opposite side of the political spectrum from the majority of his colleagues and students.

But even the conservative commentator — who is more than used to taking heat at some of the country’s most liberal academic institutions for his stances — says he hasn’t seen such polarization on campus since the 1960s.

“On college campuses today there are so many professors and students with a liberal ideology,” Hayward told Fox News. “There are not many conservative students and those that are conservative are many times afraid to speak for fear of being mocked or trolled by their fellow students.”

Hayward, who is in his second year of a three-year stint as a resident scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, has had a front-row seat to the ongoing ideological battle playing out this year on the leafy college campus between a large far left contingent and a smaller, but growingly vocal hard right. …

… Given the tense atmosphere on campus, some conservatives might be thinking of keeping their head down and lying low until the dust settles. But that’s not Hayward.

“I love it,” he said of the debates taking place on campus. “While I may not agree with some of the tactics taken by both sides, this is what is supposed to be happening. An open political discourse is part and parcel of American democracy.”