Minority Teacher Scholars Program

The Minority Teacher Scholars Program (MTSP) provides forgivable loans to African-American, Asian American, Native American, and Hispanic students attending Arkansas higher education institutions with approved teacher education programs.

MTSP scholars must commit to teaching in an Arkansas public school for five (5) years after completing teacher licensure requirements. The teaching requirement will be reduced to three (3) years for teaching in one of the 42 counties in Arkansas designated as the Delta Region or for teaching a subject declared to be a critical subject shortage area by the Arkansas Department of Education.

Applications are available in the Professional Education Programs office, Education Building, room 336, and on the Arkansas Department of Higher Education web site at http://www.adhe.edu/divisions/financialaid/Pages/fa_mtsp.aspx .