Southern Illinois University Receives Justice Department Proposal on Minority Fellowships
CARBONDALE, Ill.
Southern Illinois University has received the Justice Department’s final proposal for heading off the government’s threatened lawsuit over three allegedly discriminatory graduate fellowships, a spokesman for the university system said this week.
David Gross, spokesman for SIU President Glenn Poshard, said Poshard would meet with SIU administrators and key “constituency groups” for feedback about the government’s suggested solution to the dispute.
The Carbondale school’s student newspaper, the Daily Egyptian, first reported the Justice Department’s final offer this week, citing an e-mail from Chancellor Walter Wendler’s office inviting campus leaders to discuss an “upcoming consent agreement” between the school and government.
Gross declined to reveal specifics about the government’s proposal, saying Poshard may be available later to publicly discuss it. Wendler deferred immediate comment.
Messages left with the Justice Department were not immediately returned.
