In our third story of failure for the season, on the shortest day of the year, we spend the core of the year with someone who is at the core of this season. William Golston is an advisor for the School of STEM and has been thinking about our questions since last season when he and Professor TJ Kimel shared with us how they talk about their own failures with students. 

In this story episode, we hear more detail about William's failure story and how he shares it with students. We consider the weight of expectation in student's experience of failure. Also, we think about what it means when students fail in a path that they aren't committed to. Is that different from failing at a cherished dream? And we also talk about shame in higher education and its pervasive presence. 

William is ready to talk about creating a literal "place for failure" and we start having a conversation that we hope might bring some very new and interesting ideas to support our students and our teaching community.