Building on Academic Culture of Campus: Comparison of Individual Behavior of Ma’had Students and Boarding Houses of IAIN Lhokseumawe

Development: Studies in Educational Management and Leadership July-December Vol. 1 No.2 (2022) | P. 153-168 e-ISSN: 2964-0253 DOI: https://doi.org/10.47766/development.v1i2.1209 Building on Academic Culture of Campus (Comparison of Individual Behavior of Ma’had Students and Boarding Houses of IAIN Lhokseumawe) Miftahul Jannah Institut Agama Islam Negeri Lhokseumawe Muammar Firdaus Universitas Lampung, Bandar Lampung ABSTRACT This study aims to find out and analyze how to build an academic culture outside the campus, namely at the Ma'had Jami'ah College of Institut Agama Islam Negeri Lhokseumawe. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive survey technique. The sources of informants in this study were ma'had leaders and students majoring in Islamic Education Management who live in ma'had. The results showed that as many as 48 students of Islamic education management who only lived in ma'had were only 3 students, the rest preferred to stay in boarding houses or depart from home even though the distance traveled sometimes exceeded one hour. Meanwhile, from ma'had the distance to the faculty is very close. Many of those who do not live in ma'had or have ever been in ma'had assume that they are not used to living in an orderly or disciplined atmosphere. As life has been lived by students who have settled in ma'had. ARTICLE HISTORY Received: 30-06-2022 Accepted: 16-12-2022 KEYWORDS Academic Culture, Education Management, Islamic University, Organizational Behaviour. © 2022 Development This is an open-access article under the CC-BY-SA License. : https://doi.org/10.47766/development.v1i2.1209 Corresponding Author: * Miftahul Jannah |* 153 154 Studies in Educational Management and Leadership Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022) | p. 153-168 INTRODUCTION Scientific culture (academic culture) can be understood as the totality of life and in scientific activities that are lived, interpreted, and practiced by the academic community, especially for educational institutions. This academic culture is more oriented towards a culture on campus that aims not only from the aspect of increasing intellectuality, but also honesty, truth and service to humanity, so that the overall campus culture is a culture that contains positive character values (Ilham, 2021; Zubaedi, 2020). Lhokseumawe State Islamic Institute is an Islamic-based educational institution with an emphasis on Islamic knowledge and balanced disciplinary studies. On the campus of IAIN there is also Ma'had Jami'ah, an executive body that supports campus programs that train students to be noble. Higher education has a scientific culture, which as one of the success factors of higher education must always be further developed and cultivated (Azra et al., 2007; Sahlan, 2011; Yusniar, 2018). Culture is one of the factors that determine the success of education, as stated by Salabi, Lumby and Ashkanasy that cultural differences can be a problem for school success (Ashkanasy et al., 2010; Lumby, 2012; Salabi et al., 2022a). Every university should have students who are thoughtful, capable, competent, critical and scientific about the events around them. Scientific attitudes, according to Schein, Hidayah and Jamali, are attitudes that must be possessed by a scientist or academic when faced with scientific problems and which must be studied in various scientific forums (Iflya & Hidayah, 2018; Jamali et al., 2022; Schein, 2017). The relevant scientific attitudes are curiosity, critical attitude, open attitude, objective attitude, willingness to appreciate the work of others, courage to defend the truth and attitude in one's identity in forward-looking (Chotimah et al., 2022; Marini, 2018). Scientific attitudes must always be nurtured and become a shared culture of the academic community, which in this case is closely related to academic culture (Bantock, 2021; Sulaiman, 2016). A student's self-adjustment is very important to support survival in the community where he lives. For students, campus life is both academic and non-academic. The ideal values of academic culture strongly require students to read, write and be active in classes and organizations. However, in reality not everyone can live in an ideal academic world (Fowler, 2018; Mohammady, 2018; Prasetyo & Sukatin, 2021). Copyright © Development 2022 Miftahul Jannah, Muammar Firdaus Building on Academic Culture of Campus (Comparison of Individual Behavior of Ma’had Students and Boarding Houses of IAIN Lhokseumawe) 155 The purpose of this research is to analyze how Ma'had becomes an existing academic culture in Lhokseumawe. Academic culture is a task that must be fulfilled in the university environment can be systematically programmed in a large project to build a long-term scientific culture. This can be explored from planned scientific activities, so that the process of forming academic culture becomes a positively recognized subculture (Harun et al., 2020; Seneler et al., 2019). Campus academic culture has become habits and values and norms that have gone through institutional processes and are present in the form of experience. This is an objectification of campus academic culture where the general public views that students must adjust to the product or objectification (Chotimah et al., 2022; Simangunsong, 2019). However, there have been many studies conducted on academic culture, but those that specifically discuss building academic culture as a direction to improve culture and character with positive values are still very limited. For this reason, this research is important to do. Academic culture usually exists on campus and off campus, fighting for honesty, truth, and human service, and increasing intelligence. So this culture is a culture with values that lead to positive things. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to find ways to build academic culture outside the campus, namely in ma'had. However, the campus area is now densely populated with boarding houses, indicating that boarding houses are one of the residences that attract students. There are several other options, such as Dayah on campus and Makhad Jami'ah provided by the campus. Dormitories are usually relatively close to campus, so you can walk to your chosen department. So students who do not have a vehicle do not need to take other transportation. However, the IAIN Lhokseumawe campus has provided public transportation, namely buses for students who live not far from the campus. METHODS This research is a qualitative type using descriptive survey techniques. The informants in this study were several IAIN Lhokseumawe students who lived in the ma'had. The reason for determining informants is for data accuracy. The presence of researchers in this study is the main element and is considered important because as revealed the research was conducted at Ma'had IAIN Lhokseumawe related to management in building off-campus 156 Studies in Educational Management and Leadership Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022) | p. (...truncated)