​​​​Jace Hargis, PhD

I would like to share the article on a topic, which has become a common theme in many of my discussions I have enjoyed with faculty over...

I have had several discussions this week with faculty on the topic of student confusion. This week’s article "Sequences of Frustration...

-- This blog is the beginning of weekly emails sent to colleagues interested in higher education teaching research -- Several of you have...

So, for those who have read most of the literature base in this “Need to Fail” blog, if we agree that change is difficult and one reason...

The philosophies and values of a culture form in part from the shared fears and loves in the culture. Differing fears and loves have...

We propose that we make decisions following our failed events based on two and only two major criteria – fear or love. In the Middle...

“Failure is an opportunity.” Lao tzu (a 6th century BC record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court) (quote is from chapter 79, line 1 of the...

Questions that can help us to know when we have sufficiently ‘tried’ an event and should possibly consider another direction different...

Here we share how we can concretely make connections between how we behave before, during and after failed events and the foundational...

After we have fully engaged in a healthy, full-fledged failed event and recognized its value, now what do we do? Therapy? When life’s...