Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

It’s a tough time in higher education. A crackdown on student protestors, rollbacks in funding and increased deportations of international students have made both administrators and students wary and weary. Just this week, President Donald Trump escalated his battle against Harvard, with the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting the university from enrolling international students.

2 weeks ago | forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Do you ever daydream of quitting your 9-to-5 to start your own business? If so, be aware that obtaining additional funding or loans just got a bit tougher. The Small Business Administration, the government agency in charge of providing support to small businesses—from loans to access to government contracts—just underwent an overhaul in its conditions for providing funding.

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Anti-immigrant sentiment has been on the rise in the past year. And with President Donald Trump’s executive orders calling for mass deportations, student visas being revoked and reports of folks getting stopped at the border over the nature of their job, foreign workers have begun to sour on moving to the United States.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

Last month, 98% of Goldman Sachs’ shareholders took the advice of the firm’s board and voted against two anti-diversity, equity and inclusion proposals. Was Goldman Sachs boldly standing up for DEI, while some other big banks were retreating on the issue? (JPMorgan Chase, for example, renamed all its DEI efforts DOI, for Diversity, Opportunity and Inclusion.)Not exactly.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Maria Gracia Santillana Linares

This is a published version of Forbes’ Careers Newsletter. Click here to subscribe and get it in your inbox every Tuesday. As part of my job, I spend quite a bit of time each week speaking with job-seekers and perusing job boards to see who is hiring and for what positions. In the last month, one thing has been—at least anecdotally—clear: More job postings are popping up. Friday’s job numbers confirmed this trend.