Carla Hoʻā is Interim Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Administration and Finance at Cal Poly Humboldt. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring that the university budget, campus capital planning efforts, risk management and safety policies, and resource acquisition and use are aligned in support of the university's strategic plan and academic mission. She provides leadership, guidance, and oversight of the Division of Administration and Finance.
Previously, Hoʻā served as the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Affairs at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, and Chief Financial Officer and Vice Chancellor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Hoʻā’s higher education finance and administration experience spans nearly three decades. Some of her notable accomplishments include leadership of a new incentive-based campus budget model to align resources with campus priorities; development of tuition and aid strategies to attract and retain students, especially financially disadvantaged and underrepresented students; new revenue generation, cost savings, and cost avoidance measures generating nearly $100 million in resources; development of a long-range financial model to provide a roadmap that includes enrollment projections, capital planning, cash flow projections, endowments and investments and financial indicators to assess fiscal health and resilience; and development of a $25 million plan for financially sustainable, impactful, and transparent investments to support campus priorities for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Ho‘ā received her bachelor of science in finance and master of business administration from the University of Colorado Denver.
