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Anglum Receives Grant to Study Educator Recruitment, Retention and Effectiveness

May. 13, 2025

Educational Leadership faculty member J. Cameron Anglum has been awarded a grant from the Walton Family Foundation to support the Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Effectiveness (ERRE) Center. 

The grant is a continuation of Anglum’s work at the Saint Louis University School of Education prior to joining Lehigh’s College of Education (COE). Led by faculty at the University of Missouri, the ERRE Center will provide quantitative research and analyses of Missouri's teacher labor markets. Anglum will examine trends in teacher turnover and shortages, and implement a new statewide survey of teacher working conditions.

"As reports document increased teacher turnover, burnout, and attrition from the teaching profession, education leaders and policymakers require detailed, context-specific, and timely research to inform their educator recruitment and retention strategies and legislative efforts,” Anglum explained. “I am happy to support these aims alongside research partners in my former home state of Missouri and to lead similar efforts here in Pennsylvania.”

He believes the COE is uniquely positioned to contribute to these goals. Anglum is helping to lead a Future Maker Mountaintop Activation Grant at Lehigh, where COE faculty will partner with Lehigh's Small Cities Lab and colleagues across the University to host a summit in Fall 2025. The summit will engage Pennsylvania legislators, educators, and community leaders on pertinent education policy issues in the state's smaller urban areas, concentrated on teacher workforce concerns.

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