Southern Illinois trustees have approved an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department that makes students of any race or gender eligible for three fellowship programs that had been reserved for women or members of minority groups. As part of the settlement, the university denied having engaged in illegal discrimination but said it would open all of its paid fellowship programs to members of any race, gender or ethnicity. University president Glenn Poshard vowed to press ahead with efforts to diversify SI campuses and said the university would take the necessary steps to assure that nothing in the criteria used in the school's graduate assistance programs would hamper the participation of women and minorities in the program.