Julie Johnson Kidd Travel Research Fellowship
The Julie Johnson Kidd Travel Research Fellowships have been developed to assist faculty engaged in the liberal arts and sciences in research projects that will contribute to informing classroom teaching. Following the pandemic, J. J. Kidd Travel Research Fellowship was innovated in 2021 to serve collaboration of faculty from liberal arts and other higher education institutions. The mission of fellowship is now to foster the principles announced in the ECOLAS Manifesto and demonstrates opportunity for European higher education on the bachelor level as proposed by ECOLAS.
Julie Johnson Kidd
Ms. Kidd has been President of The Endeavor Foundation, New York, formerly Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, for nearly forty years. The foundation was founded in 1952 by her father, Christian A. Johnson. Throughout those years, Ms. Kidd has believed that the most important work which the Foundation could undertake is in the field of education.
Ms. Kidd also believes that only through education can we make the world a better place. Within the education field, she has staunchly adhered to supporting and strengthening interdisciplinary study in the liberal arts and sciences at the undergraduate level, both in the United States and in many other countries. Additionally, Ms. Kidd has emphasized the development of cross-cultural understanding amongst people of all nations. She believes that without such understanding, mankind will not be able to protect this planet for future generations of all living things. Thus, she has expressed her deep gratitude for the naming of this Fellowship in her honor, which will promote the values that she holds so dear.
J. J. Kidd Fellowship was established in 2015. Here you can find information about the past years of the Fellowship.