Islamic Academic Culture (Budai) as a Model of Sustaining Religious Education in a Global Era at Sultan Agung Islamic University Semarang, Indonesia

Nowadays many Islamic higher education systems globally operate the backdrop of Islamic traditional values. With the growing competition in the global higher education marketplace, Sultan Agung Islamic University (UNISSULA) has offered the quality Islamic traditions, namely Islamic Academic Culture (BudAI). The main objective of this research is to know the influences of BudAI implementation toward the students’ behaviors in a global era based on Islamic values and tenets. Hence this study is under a qualitative and quantitative research supported by an interdisciplinary approach, mainly education, culture and social. The qualitative ethnography was adopted to collect the primary data through the interview and observation. Questionnaires were added to take account the influences of teaching BudAI by using the quantitative model of regression. This study of BudAI model shows that the implementing of Islamic Academic Culture has given great contributions toward students’ behaviors in facing the global era by maintaining their Islamic values to be the generation of Khaira Ummah.