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.

A professor in an unhappy marriage obsesses over and fantasizes about a much younger student, imagining how he will age.

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.

An awkward Connecticut professor tries to cure his loneliness by dating tens of women, all to no avail.

A disgruntled college professor in Mississippi takes an interest in one of his students, a budding writer, and tries to find him a girlfriend.

A woman confronts a professor who wronged her friend.

A college girl becomes her professor's mistress and moves into his home with his wife and children. After she becomes pregnant, the wife is pushed to make a tragic decision to escape her crumbling marriage and protect the young new mother.

A freshman in college deals with loneliness and grief as she attends the weekly office hours of an English professor at her school, who happens to be the father of her friend who died of brain cancer.

A teacher finds herself entangled in the life of a mesmerising student, only to learn that everything he told her about himself was a lie.