Character Education is a never ending process, so it must be proceed continuously and cannot be stopped at just
the high school level. In fact, some students have a variety of problems as a result of the influence of modernity
which brings cultural and capitalist hedonist such as: vandalism, promiscuity, drugs, alcoholism, anarchism,
campus friction and so on. One of the alternative models of Character Education applied to build students
character of Islamic universities is "Character Education Based on the Reinforcement of Social Capital",
considering the fact that radius of trust is still need the reinforcement of social capital to bridge it. The philosophy
of this model is "the best of a man is useful for others". While the basic concept of the model consists of: trust,
social glue, and reciprocity norm. The approaches used in this model are: a micro approach with the
implementation of the module, meso approach to build a culture, and a macro approach to build a network.
These models are very effective to build a care and cooperation character, effective to build a character of
obedient worship and responsibilities, and less effective to build character of honesty.
Keywords: Character Education, Social Capital, and Higher Education
