The students will be learning from contractors and other professionals in areas like information technology, mechanical engineering, architecture and design, structural engineering, leasing and marketing and corporate communications.
At his father's side, Mr. Trump said, he learned about contractors, and negotiations.
"Interrogation for Profit" (editorial, June 12) correctly lauds Congress's belated effort to bar private contractors from interrogator roles — more than four years after we learned of the contractors' responsibility for detainee abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
We assume learning occurs when the contractor performs preventive maintenance that reduces both time and cost.
The main contractors learn a lot from their supply chains in these sessions.
Dan Sturdivant, who gives out information about contracts for the Department of Homeland Security, said the matchmaking sessions "help contractors learn their homework".
The contractors learned that they could buy a 45-inch diameter clock with Roman numerals from the Electric Time Company of Medfield, Mass., for $8,000.
For crane operators, training takes about six months; highway contractors learn on the job.
For Glassberg, the threat to his sanctuary also hit a deeply personal nerve: The day after he learned of the contractors there, his wife, a fellow scientist who co-founded the center with him, died.
Respondents in municipalities, emphasised learning from consultants, landfill site contractors, and colleagues in city-twinning programmes, while respondents in private waste companies, emphasised learning from experienced, senior colleagues.
