For the purposes of the Minority Teachers of Illinois (MTI) Scholarship Program and the Illinois Future Teacher Corps (IFTC) Program, a minority student is one who is either:

• African American/Black - a person having origins in any of the black racial groups in Africa;
• Hispanic American - a person of Spanish or Portuguese culture with origins in Mexico, South or Central America, or the Caribbean Islands, regardless of race;
• Asian American - a person with origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, including Pakistan, and the Pacific Islands (including, among others, Hawaii, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia); or
• Native American - a person who is a member of a federally or state recognized Indian tribe, or whose parents or grandparents have such membership, including the native people of Alaska.