Reduced Inequalities

UNESA has a dedicated unit for diversity and inclusion

Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA) tasks a dedicated disability office, the Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas (PUID), also known as the Disability Innovation Center (DIC), to advise on and implement disability inclusion policies, programmes and training on campus. The Rector appointed DIC's 2025 implementing team by decree on 17 April 2025, and the office continued to advise and implement disability inclusion work through 2026, including a campus-wide accessibility review, staff and study-programme readiness meetings, and a skills-training partnership.

Existence of a diversity/equality committee, office or officer tasked by UNESA's administration or governing body

Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA) tasks the Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas (PUID), also known as the Disability Innovation Center (DIC), as its formally appointed office for disability equity and inclusion. The Rector of Universitas Negeri Surabaya appointed the office's 2025 implementing team, chaired by Prof. Dr. Budiyanto, M.Pd., through the Keputusan Rektor Universitas Negeri Surabaya Nomor UN38/HK/2025 tentang Tim Pelaksana Pusat Unggulan Ipteks Perguruan Tinggi (PUI-PT) Disability Innovation Center (DIC) Universitas Negeri Surabaya, issued in Surabaya on 17 April 2025 and in force from that date (Universitas Negeri Surabaya, 2025).

The PUID/DIC's publicly stated mission further specifies its responsibilities for creating an accessible and inclusive campus for students and staff with disabilities, delivering disability-awareness and skills programmes, fostering disability-related research and assistive innovation, collaborating on disability equality, and providing advocacy and psychosocial support. These stated functions establish the unit's disability-equity remit, although they do not establish that PUID/DIC is the university-wide diversity officer for every protected characteristic (Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas, n.d.).

UNESA's PUID/DIC advises on accessibility standards and implements accessibility work campus-wide. On 10 September 2026 the office, led by Prof. Dr. Budiyanto, held a Focus Group Discussion on campus accessibility and facility mapping covering all five UNESA campuses, examining ramp gradients, tactile guiding blocks, door accessibility and navigation for students and staff with visual impairments (Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas, 2026a).

PUID/DIC also implements disability-related training programmes. On 4 September 2026 its coordinators met with the Sagasitas Indonesia Foundation to prepare a cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence training programme for students with disabilities from UNESA and other institutions, to run with theoretical and hands-on sessions and a closing recognition ceremony in December 2026 (Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas, 2026b).

PUID/DIC advises study programmes on implementing disability inclusion. On 31 August 2026 the office convened a meeting at UNESA's Rectorate with representatives of UNESA's study programmes on academic readiness for newly admitted students with disabilities, reviewing early identification, classroom accommodation and the office's existing peer mentoring, therapy, counselling and reporting services (Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas, 2026c).

The office also demonstrated direct implementation of inclusion-related training on 25 September 2026 by delivering assistive-technology orientation for incoming students with disabilities, covering hands-on assistive technology, disability-needs profiling, volunteer support and the academic information system. The associated profiling programme applied an adapted WHODAS 2.0 assessment to identify learning and participation barriers and inform reasonable accommodations; it was a post-admission support activity, not an admission eligibility test (Pusat Unggulan Iptek Disabilitas, 2026d, 2026e).