An abrasive yet impassioned college professior goes through a midlife crisis.

As Max juggles various duties associated with being department chair,the Dean attempts to lighten Max's heavy course ...

A well-meaning student committee has voted to honor an elderly alumnus who was a former policy aide to Senator Brecke...

Theo, Max's dream student, prepares to do his thesis on the Vietnam War. When Theo approaches Andrea Haskell to be hi...

Max is worried about his own resolve when his sponsor, who had seemed to be the model of self-control, ends up fallin...

Max is jealous when his son, Lester, seems to prefer spending time with his new friend's fun, active fireman father, ...

Max and Judith are shocked to learn that their college friend from Berkeley has long publicly misrepresented her role...

A student with extremely conservative political beliefs brings up charges against Andrea for the liberal bias she bel...

One of Andrea's students turns out to be emotionally disturbed, although Andrea doesn't realize it at first. Andrea ...

A wealthy student (whose character and grade dispute was featured in the series pilot) hires a top law firm in order ...

Max is conflicted when his lecture on activism inspires a gifted student who was planning to get her doctorate choose...

Nell dates a college Professor. Josh may lose his job because he sees one of his students

Max needs to get a healthy lifestyle after learning that his dad is dying

Max gives a wealthy woman Kathryn Cahill the wrong Idea when she gives a donation to Chadwick.

Jay Bickford feels his time has come and later sneaks out of the hospital. Andrea's Mom comes back into her life.

Max finishes his novel but a protest breaks out when some people find themselves in characters from the book.

Max joins a city planning committee that considers wether to build a mall on a histortic site. His vote decides it.

Max finds out Nell can be as forceful as he can be whey they fight over wether Doyle Dumont can speak at Chdwick.

Love is in the air Lester fall in love with a Girl who tries to get him to smoke Andrea falls in love with a tv prode...

A literary agent, impressed with the manuscript of Max's novel, wants to remake him into her image of a best-selling ...

An old friend who is a famous dean at Harvard comes to visit Max to ask him to join the faculty there. Meanwhile, Ma...

On rejoining a weekly poker game, Max learns of something he did to one of the guys while still a drunk, for which th...