Kansas University’s “surprise patrol” has awarded the final Kemper fellowship on the Lawrence campus to a social welfare professor.

Toni K. Johnson, assistant professor of social welfare, earned the $7,500 award, supported by the William T. Kemper Foundation and KU Endowment.

Johnson focuses on giving students real-world experience, and has taken classes to the Topeka Correctional Facility to learn from employees and inmates about the needs of incarcerated women.

The fellowships recognize outstanding teachers and advisers at KU, and are determined by a seven-member selection committee.

Three more Kemper fellowships are scheduled to be awarded at KU Medical Center.