Kim David Eger Travel Award

Named for CNU’s first Fulbright Scholarship recipient, this award, in the amount of $1000 (or smaller as appropriate), is available annually to one or more Honors Program Students with sophomore or junior standing and a grade point average of 3.5 or above., depending upon availability of funding. To be eligible for consideration, the student must propose a project that connects in a significant way with his / her academic and / or professional aspirations. Interested Honors students should contact the Director of the Honors Program directly.

Eger earned a masters degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins. After several years working for the American Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt, Germany, Mr. Eger returned to the United States to head the North American division of ASB Greenworld, Inc. in the Lawn & Garden industry. He is currently a director with the Scotts-Miracle Gro Company, responsible nationally for their regional sales manager team with their largest customer.

According to Eger, “It was the Honors Program that widened my horizons from a more academic track to a broader curriculum. The inter-disciplinary coursework in Business and Economics later steered me to what a recent W&M study on the best advanced degree programs in America found to be the # 1 international program, SAIS.”

David Eger was famous at CNU for his travels—the so-called “Trip to Maine” for Honors credit; a semester abroad in France (with travels through several eastern countries as the Iron Curtain was falling); a spring break visit to Brussels to study the European Economic Community. Now, thanks to Mr. Eger’s generosity, a current Honors Student will have financial support for travel to present or conduct research.

Kim David Eger & former German President Richard von Weizsaecker, 1998