WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (TNSPPX) -- The American Council on Education issued the following news release on Sept. 9: ACE announced today that Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), is the recipient of the 2020 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. The award is named in honor of Reginald Wilson, senior scholar emeritus at ACE and founding director of the Council's Office of Minority Concerns, and is presented annually to an individual who h  more

GARDEN CITY, New York, Sept. 12 (TNSRac) -- Adelphi University issued the following news: The African American experience has often been minimized, misrepresented or even omitted completely from works of history--a scholarly act that continues to negatively shape societal attitudes and assumptions today. Marsha J. Tyson Darling, PhD, professor of history and interdisciplinary studies and director of Adelphi's African, Black and Caribbean Studies program, is hard at work challenging conventional  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 10 -- The Maine Democratic Party issued the following news release: Senator Susan Collins is facing calls for an official ethics investigation following new reporting in Salon on allegations that Collins used her office to financially benefit herself and her husband. In addition to previously reported instances of Senator Collins voting to benefit her husband's lobbying business, Collins' latest financial disclosure revealed that she and her husband have raked in hundreds  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Sept. 7 -- The Nevada Democratic Party issued the following news release: Three years ago, Donald Trump first announced his intent to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This decision, which the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional this summer, is one example in a long list of attacks from the Trump administration on immigrant communities. Trump's attempt to end DACA protections threw the lives of more than 13,000 Nevada Dreamers into turmoil. Nev  more

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina, Sept. 12 (TNSPer) -- South Carolina State University issued the following news: SC State University has announced the hiring of Travis Johnson as the new Chief Information Officer (CIO). Johnson will lead the University Computing and Information Technology Services (UCITS) department on campus. After an extensive search and a series of interviews, he was selected as the most qualified candidate to fulfill the university's technological objectives. As CIO, Johnson w  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following transcript of an interview with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Sept. 9: * * * Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss the more than 100 days since the House passed the Heroes Act, Senate Republicans' emaciated COVID relief proposal and other news of the day. Below are the Speaker's remarks: Andrea Mitchell. I'm joined now by House Spe  more