The Enduring Skills Story Series was part of a larger marketing initiative to promote the Gettysburg Approach. This series was created to feature each of the seven enduring skills that we emphasize within The Gettysburg Approach - adaptability, communication, creativity, intercultural fluency, leadership, problem solving, and teamwork - through the stories of alumni using those skills and their Gettysburg education in their careers. The video series emphasizes how as students, these alumni utilized what was provided to them at Gettysburg in building their skills and how they continue to draw on and build upon what they learned and experienced a the College in their everyday lives. This series not only demonstrates tangible outcomes of the Enduring Skills and The Gettysburg Approach, but also reinforces that those skills have always been a natural part of our curriculum and education.

Fergan’s story was the first I filmed in the series, and we shot on location in his lab at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate.