Dr. M. Khusni Mubarok, S.HI., M.Pd.I.

Rektor Universitas Kartini Surabaya

ReHopeful of a good year of 2018 I gladly send words of greeting to our  students, alumni, high-school students and their parents, employers of diverse kinds as well as the entire internal service workforce of Kartini University University. Recognizing the success stories of Kartini University’s alumni, upward trend in the number of graduates and enrollment of new students to the School of Business and Economics and the School of Applied STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) as well as the growth in human capital and physical capital Kartini University University is well equipped to thrive in the enormously shifting global higher education environment.

Coincident with its full-fledged elevation into a university Kartini University is undergoing a process of reinvention. With the School of Business and Economics and School of Applied STEM under one roof  learning at Kartini University is evolving as a collaborative transdisciplinary undertaking, however painstaking it may be to get such transdisciplinarity to get to fruition. At the same time Kartini University is seeking to serve increasingly as part of the solution to Indonesia’s perennial entrepreneurial handicap. Processes such as research, students’ involvement in entrepreneurship-centered community development, critical class-interactions, internships, and team-based business conceptualization and implementation are made the key feature of Kartini University’s learning by enterprising with a view to bringing Kartini University closer to fulfilling its original mission of serving as a habitat for entrepreneur creation and advancement.