Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship

About the Scholarship

The Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship is available to students in Illinois pursuing an undergraduate or graduate level teaching license. Students who are planning to attend or are currently attending a 4-year college or university in Illinois are eligible to apply. Recipients of this scholarship should plan to teach at a nonprofit Illinois public, private or parochial preschool, elementary or secondary school at which no less than 30 percent of the enrolled students are minority students, in the year following college graduation.