On April 9, 2019, a solemn meeting of the Academic Council of the University took place on the occasion of the awarding the diploma of the Honorary Doctor of the Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University to the rector of the Vitelon State Higher Vocational School in Legnica (Republic of Poland), professor, doctor, honored by Richard Kazimierz Pisarsky. There was another meeting on the same day , where Polish delegation met with professors of the Department of Biology and Natural Sciences and signed an agreement on cooperation between the Vitelon State Higher Professional School in Ljensytsia and the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Naguevychi” headed by Bogdan Lazorak.
There was also a numerical delegation arrived with the Doctor, which included the wife of the nominee Kristina Shostak-Pisarskaya, the ex-rector of the State Higher Vocational School named after Vitelon, and at the same time the first honorary doctor of our university was Professor Stanislav Dombrovsky, Ambassador of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, Master Elizabeth Stempen, as well as representatives of the Vitelon State Higher Vocational School: Chancellor Master Robert Burba, Deputy Chancellor Master Jerzy Stefaniak, Dr. Beata Squarek, Dr. Monica Vezhbicka, Secretary of the Publishing House Master’s degree Przemyslav Kulon, Master’s degree Zbigniew Gol, Master Dariusz Stefaniak and others.
The solemn meeting was opened with the National Anthem of Ukraine. Rector Nadiya Skotna announced the decision of the Academic Council of our University about the awarding of the title to Ryshard Kazimierzh Pisarsky. The laudation in honor of the honorary doctor was expressed by the dean of the biology and natural sciences faculty Svetlana Voloshanska.
Thereupon, Professor Nadiya Skotnya presented to Professor Ryshard Kazimierzh Pisarsky’s Diploma of Honorary Doctor. Our celebrated folk choir “Gaudeamus” honored this act with the brilliant performance of the grand anthem of the academic community “Gaudeamus”. Afterwards, the honorary doctor, Ryshard Kazimierzh Pisarsky, made an inaugural lecture on “Higher education – have an education or being educated?” Professor Stanislav Dombrovsky, Ambassador of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Elzbieta Stompeen, Professor of the Department of Biology and Chemistry Yaroslav Lesyk, Director of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve “Naguevichi” Bogdan Lazorak congratulated Ryshard Kazimierz Pisarsky with the title Doctor Honoris Causa.
The solemn meeting of the Academic Council of the University was completed with the sounds of the anthem of our university .