Ivy League grads face risk of losing prized jobs after schools allow antisemitic protests to fester: Wall Street titan

The violent, antisemitic protests at some of the nation’s elite colleges has forced top corporate recruiters to assess the quality of the education dispensed at these places — and whether they should look elsewhere for job candidates, the Post has learned.Activist investor Daniel Loeb, a Columbia University graduate, has begun to reconsider whether to focus offering jobs at his hedge fund to fellow alums and other Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, Penn amid their tepid responses to the protests on their campuses, he told The Post.“We’ve always looked beyond the target schools but we’re doing it even more so now given recent events,” Loeb told The Post on Wednesday.“We are looking for high-quality candidates but we’re going to be looking at different places.”Loeb’s firm, Third Point, which manages $11 billion in assets, regularly recruited from places like Columbia in the past, he said.Now, he’s broadening his focus to schools like Yeshiva University, the University of Florida and Emory University.The “Ivies” — and schools like NYU and MIT that have also been hotbeds of antisemitic protests — are likely to remain so-called target schools for job recruitment for Wall Street and big corporations given the diaspora of their alumni in board rooms and C-suites. However, job applicants from these places may find that the days of gliding through the interview process to a job are over, according to Wall Street executives and recruiters.The anti-Israel protests now at Columbia, and throughout some of the country’s once revered, top-tiered universities are tarnishing degrees from these places, these people say. Recruiters see the bungling responses from school administrations to the protests — such as Columbia calling for remote learning as officials negotiate with anti-Israel protesters to decamp from their disruptive tent-cities on campus — as endemic of a wider problem at the schools from an academic standpoint.At issue:...