Original sentence: In 2005, Ward Churchill received a majority of votes from the students at the University of Colorado at Boulder who voted for its Teaching Recongnition Award.The University of Colorado Alumni Association, which sponsors the award, announced that they would withhold the award from Churchill until the investigation on the charges that he committed research misconduct had been concluded
Edited sentence: Following the political pressure to distance themselves from Professor Churchill, the University of Colorado Alumni Association, which sponsors the award, announced that they would withhold the award from Churchill.Given annually for 44 years, this is the first time the award's was withheld from the person who won it.In 2005, students at the University of Colorado at Boulder overwhelmingly picked Ward Churchill for its Teaching Recongnition Award