In this article Reinke and Walker reflect on the experience of one university MPA program as it became more engaged in the surrounding community. The authors conclude that the programme’s attempts in this regard have resulted in ‘involvement’ in the community but not ‘community engagement’ per se. The authors draw on the work of Lawson (2002) to make this distinction, noting that involvement refers to individual efforts to engage, while engagement occurs systematically and at the institutional level. The authors argue that is useful to think of institutions as being on a journey toward community engagement rather than assessing the level of engagement at any discrete point in time.The article has a short but useful literature review.