'Academic Capitalism' with Amie Hammond, Ed.D.

Amie Hammond, Ed.D. is the executive director of Career Services at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Amie has nearly three decades of experience in higher education and recently earned a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno. She is also an active leader within the MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers). In this episode we discuss:The moment early in her career when she decided she wanted to one day be a career services director.Her unique reporting to the AVP of Student Affairs and Equity and Transition and how being in the Equity and Transition unit influences her approach to the work.Her dissertation research which examines the values congruence of student affairs practitioners in a neoliberal context (and where I first learned the term "academic capitalism"!).Why she identifies strongly with an Authentic Leadership model and how she uses Bolman and Deal's Four Frames model... and so much more!Amie, thank you for a great conversation!P.S. If you are curious about Amie's dissertation, check it out here: https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/r207tw66g