February 3, 2006

Southern Illinois U. and Justice Dept. Near Accord on Minority Fellowships

By PETER SCHMIDT

The Southern Illinois University system has reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to alter fellowship programs that the department had challenged as discriminatory because they are reserved for women or members of minority groups.

Officials of the university system and the Justice Department refused last week to comment publicly on the details of the accord, which the federal agency proposed after two months of negotiations with system officials. But a source

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