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retirement. One was The
Mojimir Povolny Prize in Government, an award annually granted to an outstanding senior in the government department. Secondly, an annual lecture series named in his honor that was purposed to highlight the improvement of global cooperation was established in 1987. Notable speakers include the journalist
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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary George Meyer. The Lawrence University Povolny Lecture Series encourages student engagement with the ethical dimensions surrounding political science and government. In the lectures, presenters debate topics such as politics, economics
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On his retirement in 1987, Povolný was praised for his service as an "academic dean, department chair, wise counselor to presidents, confidant to colleagues, pedagogical innovator, scholar, and, above all, generous guide and teacher to students" and the university made two dedications in honor of his
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Lawrence, Povolný taught courses in international politics, international law, international organizations and Soviet politics, but he was also heavily involved in the college in other ways. He became the chair of The Select Committee on Planning in 1969, where he was a key
198:. In 1950, he migrated to the United States and received his PhD in international relations from the University of Chicago in 1954. In 1957, he joined the faculty at Lawrence University where he taught government for 30 years. He received an honorary degree from Masaryk University in 1992.
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Appleton, Wisconsin, from 1958–1987. During winter 1958, he commuted from Chicago to teach a course in politics at Lawrence University while also teaching at the University of Chicago three times a week before he began teaching full-time at Lawrence in September the same year.
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figure in restructuring the institutional plan for liberal arts education at
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From 1947 to 1948, Povolný carried out his role as "executive secretary of its
Economic Council in Prague" with the Beneš Party’s democratic youth movement. After the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia and the
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and culture in a global world view, and work to find a balance between government control and corporate freedom to prevent harm to the environment while keeping business competitiveness intact.
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