MEMPERKOKOH SUMBER DAYA MANUSIA PADA PENDIDIKAN TINGGI ISLAM DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

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MEMPERKOKOH SUMBER DAYA MANUSIAPADA PENDIDIKAN TINGGI ISLAMDALAM ERA GLOBALISASIOleh :Ishomuddin *)Fakultas Agama Islam UMMABSTRACTSome experts say that globalization can not be avoided. All aspects in the life influenced byglobalization values. The awareness of globalization causes broader knowledge of men for gainingsomething better. Everywhere people start talking about quality, the academic quality as well as thequality of services. People start to compare good product and a no good/bad quality product,between good and bad ideas in this era. The characteristics of globalization era are borderless, thecrisis of moral and ethics, the weakness of nation identity, mega-competition, and knowledgesociety. This paper talks about the characteristic and objective of Islam and how the Islamic highereducation faces some challenges in the globalization era. As an Islamic education institution, theIslamic higher education attempts to develop its human resources (lecturers and non-lecturers) andcontribute best services to the students to prepare their future. Doing that it has to restructure allthe aspects either in the field of curriculum or lecturer quality. There are two ways to faceglobalization challenges in Islamic higher education, first, developing human resources and,second, changing the traditional education paradigm to the modern one.Keywords: human resources, highereducation, the globalization era.