'engaging academic' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is an academic, but also an engaging speaker or teacher. For example, "We were lucky to have such an engaging academic facilitate our discussion today."
The reticence to engage academic researchers is likely a product of decades of stigma against "trailer parks" and similar communities among political institutions and popular culture.
Last year I ran an international weeklong conference on how to engage academic staff in staff development and am currently editing the book that was the outcome of that meeting.
Yet too often, we also know that state and national policies lead to an over-emphasis on test preparation -- robbing students of engaged academic learning about real-world, higher-order skills such as creativity and problem-solving.
Israel's government has actively engaged academics, artists and other cultural figures in international "Brand Israel" campaigns to prettify the country's image and distract attention from the oppression of Palestinians.
In an age when thinktanks and "public relations" experts dominate media output, it might also be time to engage academics more fully as sources of (relatively) independent comment and analysis.
Black people are being shot dead in the street almost daily by trigger-happy cops and two ostensibly smart men, who have both produced excellent work and who pride themselves on being engaged academics responsive to the needs of the black community, are firing broadsides at each other.
This measure contains 12 different potential reasons for engaging in academic dishonesty and participants were asked to indicate whether they agreed that the academic misconduct was justified in each of the listed circumstances.
Along the way, according to a jury and a panel of appellate court judges, he crossed from engaging in academic debate to committing a crime.
Engaging the academic community and pharmaceutical industry in a development partnership may be the best way to jump-start the process.
