YEARS
AT PENN: 17 WHAT SHE DOES: Siegel (left), associate director and senior
event manager in Conference Services, works in partnership with
offices across campus to meet housing, security, food service and
other needs of clients holding meetings or events on campus. Here,
shes working on food service arrangements with Dining Services
Meal Contracts Manager Sugirtha Vivekananthan. MEETINGS ARRANGED PER YEAR: 110, on average. Conference Services
also runs Destination Penn, a program aimed at promoting
Penn to the outside world as a meeting and event site. CONTACT INFO: E-mail: sondras@pobox.upenn.edu;
Web site: www.upenn.edu/destinationpenn;
phone:
215-898-9319
“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)