Ken Burns teased a new 6‑part, 12‑hour doc “The American Revolution” with Lin-Manuel Miranda on PBS— Burns, famed U.S. history filmmaker (Jazz, Vietnam, Civil War).
A Yale committee has found that steep costs, opaque admissions, free-speech tensions, and blurred missions are fueling public doubts about higher education’s value and purpose, urging a return to core academic functions to rebuild trust.