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About the Project
MISSION
The university experience, at its
best, is transformative. It challenges students to continually
reexamine their assumptions about themselves and the world, including
their assumptions about what it means to succeed and
what it means to fail.
The mission of the Success/Failure Project is to create opportunities
for discussion, reflection, understanding, and creative engagement
regarding issues of success and failure.
Students grapple with
questions like these:
- What am I working for? Who am I working
for?
- What constitutes success? Who defines that?
What constitutes failure? Who defines that?
- Where do my beliefs about success and failure come
from?
- What does it mean to
be responsible for, to learn from, or just to suffer, both my successes
and my failures?
- What roles do
ambition, creativity, perfectionism, and joy play in my life and learning? How about other
factors and feelings, such as obligation, competition, integrity,
achievement, chance, fear,
talent, shame, necessity,
obedience, curiosity, collaboration, surprise, and exploration?
- What does it mean to be a good, successful, even
excellent student and human being?
On this website you will find personal stories of success and
failure, inspirational (or just funny) quotations, links to
readings and other resources, and information about The Success/Failure Project activities
and events.
STAFF
The Success/Failure Project is an initiative of
the staff of the Bureau of Study Counsel, in
collaboration with various guests and colleagues. The Project is currently co-chaired by
two public high school dropouts, Abigail Lipson, Ph.D., the Director of the Bureau
of Study Counsel, and Ariel Phillips, Ed.D., of the Bureau staff.
CONTACT US
We welcome your feedback and
contributions, especially your "favorite failure" or "sorry success"
stories, your recommendations for quotations or readings, and your ideas
for Success/Failure Project activities. Contact us at:
The Success/Failure Project.
Contact information for the Bureau is
located at the bottom of every page. Students in Harvard College, GSAS, KSG, and GSE who
are struggling with issues of success and failure in their lives and
work are invited to join a Bureau
group/workshop or consult individually with a
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