"The program fee is $2,000 for private sector participants" 😹
"Applicants are welcome from any location; however, we are unable to subsidize travel or lodging for participants." 🤣
https://wagner.nyu.edu/rudincenter/2023/11/emerging-leaders-transportation-2024-applications-open
i make pretty good money as an early-career professional at a private firm, but there's no way i could afford to take time off, pay more than an entire paycheck (more than twice the cost of TRB!) for a half-week-long program, and pay for a hotel in NYC besides (on <6 weeks' notice!).
this might work for established professionals, but early-career people are the _least_ likely to be able to get their companies to pay for something like this, _or_ to be able to do it on their own.
even those who work for private-sector consulting firms.
