McDonald’s has agreed to stop accepting only Latinos into a scholarship program, as part of a settlement in a lawsuit alleging the program was discriminatory.
McDonald’s has only accepted students with Latino heritage to its HACER National Scholarship Program since the program was started in 1985. The company says more than 17,000 students have received more than $33 million in scholarships through the program.
Going forward, the requirement that recipients have at least one parent of Latino heritage is no longer in place, McDonald’s said in a Jan. 31 statement.
“The program will not have any eligibility requirement or preference based on applicants’ race or ethnicity,” the company said in a court filing stipulating the dismissal of a lawsuit….