The cost to participate in the MLI: Next Gen Leadership Academy is $750. However, if an applicant is accepted into the program and the cost is an issue for participation, the MLI: Next Gen will work with them to ensure their participation is feasible. Full and partial scholarships will be made available for those who qualify.

Typically, each cohort of participants will range from 25-30 people per year with a broad geographic and professional representation.

There will be 10 in-person sessions. Each session will include an evening session that will last 2.5 hours.

Participants will also be required to participate in an all day opening session that will fall on a Saturday. Participants will spend all-day getting to know their classmates and participating in sessions from the morning to late afternoon.

Participants will have “homework” prior to each gathering. All participants are also expected to develop a Leadership Action Plan, which they will work on throughout the program. They will also complete ongoing reading and reflection related to topics to be discussed at the in-person sessions. Advisors will be in contact with participants off-line to guide the implementation of the Leadership Action PLan as well as advise on the education leadership strategies.

Online group discussion will be prompted by MLI: Next Gen leadership.

MLI: Next Gen graduates will remain an active group with their advisors and MLI: Next Gen leadership, continuing in their role to help guide and strategize with the MLI grads. They will be asked to play a role in future training sessions and encouraged to play public leadership roles as the MLI: Next Gen organization emerges as a voice for the pragmatic centrist agenda.