"On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus"

This article (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. on "failure initiatives" at several U.S. colleges and universities as responses to rising anxiety levels among higher-education students appeared in The New York Times on June 24, 2017.  (I wasn't sure if posting the article and this discussion just before an exam was appropriate, so I delayed both by a week.)  What kinds of experiences have you had with failure as a student?  Is failure something we (university professors/administrators and/or society as a whole) should encourage, at least to some extent?  What suggestions do you have for ways the University of Utah can address these issues?  

For bonus points, write a thoughtful response to this article:  Respond to specific points, answer one or more of the questions above, or choose your own kind of response.