When a philosophy professor is called into a committee meeting for inappropriate behavior, she stews over what got her here, and how.

A female professor at a contemporary university remembers an old conversation with a former teacher of hers, which prompts her to reconsider her job, solitude, and love of reading.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

An Algerian university professor and former prisoner of France struggles with the symbolic implications of getting advice from an elite French visiting professor.

When a young father is hired for an English instructorship position, he struggles to balance playing the role of a teacher and meeting the university’s demands for a published scholar.

When a charismatic new econ history teacher moves in next door and gains a mass following at an Ohio university, the physical education instructor wonders if he is really worth the hype.

On a train ride to a metallurgical conference in Chicago, a consultant tries to avoid the debate between pure and applied sciences, but he cannot avoid it when he gets cornered in the washroom by two professors and an undecided bright new recruit.

A first-generation college student, hours from graduating, dreads leaving school and her faculty mentor for the "real world" and her traditional, Eastern European parents.

In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

A mathematics professor must contend with faith, loneliness, and academic mediocrity when a past mistake comes crashing back into his life.