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

A lonely high school English teacher develops a crush on one of his students, who continually writes him notes about the books she reads and calls him out of the blue. When her family invites him over for dinner to celebrate her admission to Princeton, he is caught off guard when they announce they want him to marry her.

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

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

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

When a woman reunites with her old college professor slash lover, it takes her back to her college-aged self and makes her feel immature and childlike again.

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.

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

A disillusioned professor finds himself challenging the university when he learns that one of his students is facing physical abuse at home, leading to a confrontation that ultimately reinforces his hopelessness.