Islamic Higher Education on Innovation and Transformation Challenges; A View of Management Change

Abstract

Changes in the management of higher education are based on the increasingly complex needs of society, one of which is marked by the birth of the State Islamic Religious College. State Islamic Religious Universities (PTKIN) are currently able to compete with other State Universities in Indonesia. The existence of PTKIN continues to survive with its distinctive characteristic, namely the integration of religious science and general science. These integration efforts continue to be improved continuously as an effort to change the scope of university management. This study aims to describe the challenges of change management in Islamic-based universities. The research method used is a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) with research objects, challenges, and strategies for managing change in Islamic universities. The current era of disruption is also influential in managing changes in higher education, such as digitalization that occurs in every educational process in higher education, including Islamic-based universities. With the main guidelines of the Qur'an and Sunnah, Islamic universities continue to innovate to respond to modernization. For this reason, human resources in Islamic-based universities develop strategies to face challenges in managing changes such as mastering 21st-century skills consisting of critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, innovating in using learning methods related to technology and no less important is balancing spirituality with digitalization in the era of disruption. Changes in the management of Islamic-based universities start from changes in terminology that give birth to consequences for integrating religious and general sciences in the educational process and the implementation of digitalization in every line of management of Islamic-based universities.