2024-09-16T15:16:33-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150436001/university-of-hawai-i-at-m-noa-professor-cathi-ho-schar-named-2024-2025-acsa-president Josh Niland 2024-07-08T18:09:00-04:00 >2024-07-09T14:58:56-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/65/656a3114f425e74415a119b65f6c5607.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/49082200/association-of-collegiate-schools-of-architecture" target="_blank">Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture</a> (ACSA) has announced <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/106427/university-of-hawai-i-at-m-noa" target="_blank">University of Hawai&#699;i at M&#257;noa School of Architecture</a> associate professor Cathi Ho Schar as its incoming president for 2024&ndash;2025.</p> <p>Ho Schar is also the inaugural director of the eight-year-old University of Hawai&#699;i Community Design Center (UHCDC), where she has gained valuable experience working with legislators, state agency directors, and faculty principal investigators to establish partnerships with over 30 public and non-profit organizations while generating $8 million in community-engaged research.</p> <p>Those efforts were instrumental in helping the UHCDC win the 2020 AIA/ACSA Practice and Leadership Award. Ho Schar says: "As an island-based educator and practitioner, I am shaped by Hawai&#699;i&rsquo;s Indigenous, immigrant, and multicultural community and aligned with ACSA&rsquo;s commitments to equity and inclusion."</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/00/00570c55efcb49490377af257e42b1b7.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/00/00570c55efcb49490377af257e42b1b7.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Related on Archinect: <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150246692/winners-of-the-acsa-and-buell-center-2021-course-development-prize-include-university-of-houston-uh-manoa-woodbury-university" target="_blank">Winners of the ACSA and Buell Center 2021 Course Development Prize include University ...</a></figcaption></figure>