POSITION:
Massage therapist, Office of Health Education (OHE) YEARS AT PENN: 6 months WHAT SHE DOES: Bowers provides 20-minute massage sessions
for students, faculty and staff as part of the offices wellness
programs. Sessions are $20 for faculty and staff, $15 for students.
The West Philly resident has been massaging Penn people since 2000
on a contract basis; OHE brought her on staff last September. She
still has contracts with the Wharton and Nursing schools and several
Penn departments. SESSIONS PER WEEK: 12 CONTACT INFO: Call OHE at 215-573-3525
“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)