This is the third report of the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities, funded by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.The Commission defines engagement as “redesigned teaching, research, and extension and service functions that are sympathetically and productively involved with the communities universities serve, however community is defined” (p. 27). Engagement is characterized by two-way partnerships, reciprocal relationships between university and community, and, sharing.The reports authors draw on 12 institutional portraits the develop 7 characteristics of an ‘engaged institution’, these are: responsiveness, respect for partners, academic neutrality, accessibility, integrating engagement into institutional mission, coordination, and resource adequacy. The report also includes a 7-part questionnaire based on these characteristics that institutions can draw on to assess their own degree of engagement.