The development of globalization, technology, information, and communication has an impact on the globalization of cultural values so that they can form new cultures. The emergence of a new culture that is not in accordance with the values of Pancasila can result in a shift in ethical, moral, and moral values in the lives of Indonesian people. Therefore, character building in Indonesia becomes the main focus and is very important in shaping and developing the potential of Indonesian citizens to have a character in accordance with the Pancasila philosophy. School is one of the effective media in shaping and developing students' character values. One strategy for developing character values in schools is through school culture. School culture includes all activities carried out in the school in which there are character values through the interaction of all school members. The inculcation of character values which becomes the school culture needs to be developed based on local wisdom and carried out systematically, integratively, and holistically. The application of character values through school culture is done by creating conditions that support the inculcation of character values, role models, routine school activities, spontaneity activities, programmatic activities, counseling guidance activities, and extracurricular activities. The application of character values through school culture can be done through several activities, including; 5S activities (Greetings, Smiles, Greetings, Polite and Courteous); tadarus culture; the culture of reading prayer when starting and ending learning; discipline; and clean culture; honest culture; memorial day; neatly dressed, and so on.

Students are school inputs that affect the quality and achievement of educational goals. Differences in talents, motivations, and characteristics of students, school zoning systems, schools focus more on increasing the quantity than the quality of students, the availability of facilities and infrastructure, the number of educators and education are some of the problems related to students. These problems have an impact on the quality of graduates and the achievement of educational goals in schools. Therefore, students in educational units need to be managed properly through the concept of student management. The purpose of writing this article is to describe and analyze the management of students in the education unit. The writing of this article uses the library research method. Student management are activities carried out by schools and related to students. Activities in student management include; Planning for students (needs analysis, recruitment, selection, orientation, placement, recording and reporting of students), student development, student evaluation and student transfer. Education unit managers need to optimize the management of quality students so that students receive optimal educational services from entering school until they graduate from school.

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School is a strategic place to apply character education to students as the nation's next generation. The strategy in implementing character education in schools is through religious activities carried out in schools. This article aims to analyze and describe the planning, implementation and obstacles faced by schools in implementing character education through religious activities. This research is a qualitative research conducted in MIN 3 Aceh Barat. The research subjects were principals, supervisors, teachers, school committees and students. Data was collected through interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis technique is done by data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing. The results showed that: (1) Planning activities carried out in each new school year by involving all school personnel, parents and school committees. Decision making is determined based on a joint decision through the stages of determining programs, costs required, program implementation plans, implementation and evaluation of religious activity programs. (2) The determined religious programs carried out on a scheduled and continuous basis until they become a habit. (3) Obstacles faced include: the dual role of teachers so that activities are not optimal, facilities for religious activities are not all adequate, the motivation of students varies in participating in religious activities at school, and parental support for activities at school is not optimal.