community engagement
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- noun
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participación comunitaria
- Through community engagement, volunteers helped revitalize local parks and improve public spaces for everyone.
- civic community engagement
- family and community engagement
- community engagement component
Mike is director of community engagement for the Beinecke, which means a lot of roles.
- Mike is director of community engagement for the Beinecke, which means a lot of roles.
Examples
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The foundation of teacher education programs at institutions of color is already grounded in community engagement and cultural values.
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The effort required to build relationships can pay off in ways that not only strengthen community engagement but may also advance our own programs.
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But as I worked on it, the most exciting thing turned out to be the community engagement.
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We're still doing community engagement so that we can get the resources we need for our babies.
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Novel public health strategies require community engagement.
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Participate in the planning and execution of community engagement and audience development events.
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From this perspective, community engagement has an explicit political dimension.
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As part of that process, the project team led nine small-group community engagement meetings across Minnesota.
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Service learning involves infusing activities into the curriculum that enhance student learning, promote community engagement, and effect change on the community level.
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The Obama administration's strategy says it'll take a combination of coordinated intelligence and community engagement.
Blog text (17)
Synonyms
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2.8
Taking part in an activity or event with other people
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3.9
Taking part in a group's activities
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2.8
Work to help people in a local area by offering services or information
How Engaged
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the process of actively participating in activities to improve or support a community' is directly compositional from 'community' (a group of people) + 'engagement' (active involvement), so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This noun–noun combination and the logic behind it are common cross‑linguistically, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Community engagement comes from the simple image of people in a community joining together and the word engagement meaning 'getting involved' in a shared task, like neighbors meeting to clean a park. That's why it means 'to take part' in activities that support or improve the local area.