{"id":53921,"date":"2016-12-07T16:59:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T02:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53921"},"modified":"2019-02-25T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T01:47:34","slug":"in-memoriam-father-of-the-uh-community-colleges-richard-kosaki-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/07\/in-memoriam-father-of-the-uh-community-colleges-richard-kosaki-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Father of the <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> Community Colleges Richard Kosaki remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j0elt_RipvQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>An interview with Richard Kosaki<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53929\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/system-kosaki-r.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/system-kosaki-r.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/system-kosaki-r-185x260.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Kosaki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Richard Kosaki<\/strong>, who is credited with being the architect of the <a href=\"http:\/\/uhcc.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> community college system<\/a>, died October 25, 2016 at the age of 92. <\/p>\n<p>Kosaki taught political science at <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> before moving into administration where he had a long distinguished career. He served as vice president for community colleges, vice chancellor for academic affairs, chancellor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> and acting chancellor for <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa<\/a>. He also helped to found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastwestcenter.org\/\">East-West Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dick was an icon of leadership for the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> System over many years, helping us develop and advance thoughtfully together in service to the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; said President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We celebrate Dick Kosaki as the father of the community colleges,&rdquo; said <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> Vice President of Community Colleges <strong>John Morton<\/strong>. &ldquo;His vision and early leadership created the community college system in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, a system that now serves 30,000 students. Dr. Kosaki believed that the benefits of higher education needed to be extended to all of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>i&#8217;s citizens and we are proud to work to continue his legacy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Longtime <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> administrator and faculty member Amy Agbayani said Kosaki is a big part of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8217;s history. &ldquo;There is a deep respect for Dr. Kosaki because he demanded respect for all and understood the aspirations of the people of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; said Agbayani, the director of the <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity Programs. &ldquo;Dick Kosaki was able to bring together scholarship, policy and praxis to benefit students, university and the state he loved.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2004 online news article about Kosaki in <em>Discover Nikkei<\/em>, his favorite maxim was the cornerstone of his educational philosophy: &ldquo;Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Kosaki was born and raised in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> and graduated from McKinley High School. He served in the Military Intelligence Service during and after World War <abbr title=\"Roman numeral two\">II<\/abbr>, spending several years in Japan as an interpreter during the occupation. He graduated from <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> in 1948. He began his career with the university in 1952 as a junior researcher before receiving his master&#8217;s and <abbr title=\"Doctor of Philosophy\">PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1956. Kosaki, a professor emeritus and a chancellor emeritus, retired from <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> in 1985. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Kosaki, who is credited with being the architect of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> community college system, died October 25, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[756,71,9,947,59,56],"class_list":["post-53921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-in-memoriam","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53921"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91392,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53921\/revisions\/91392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}