Community service has been acknowledged as one of the core responsibilities of
academics in higher institutions, along with research and teaching engagement. This study
examined predicting role of job security and academics’ community engagement of selected
universities in Southwest Nigeria. The study adopted both qualitative and quantitative methods
of data collection that involves the use of questionnaire and interview as research instruments
for data collection. A total of 545 questionnaires were retrieved from the faculty of six selected
universities in this study and six senior academic staff (one each from the selected universities)
were involved in an in-depth interview for qualitative data. Overall, the relationship between
perceived job security and community service engagement of academic staff in the selected
institutions was confirmed to be directly significant. It was recommended that deliberate effort
should be made by the university management to create sense of job security among academics,
in order to enhance their desire for community engagement