Varying Definitions of Community Being enrolled here at State University, one is a part of a community, a type of give and take community between both the elite student and knowledgeable professor. The students enroll in this community by choice, and all of them share a common goal of success and wanting to grow and prosper through the community experience. Today's version of the word community differs from past years and probably from how the word will evolve in the future. In the examining of different dictionaries on the word “community†one can find that the meanings are very similar, yet they also have some slight variations. The community here at Michigan State University is a good example of the word community. This example is especially prevalent in this definition of the word from The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary where it states a community being "a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society <the academic community>". This is exactly the type of community we have here at MSU.
