Two high‑impact financial moves hit higher education this week: Yale University expanded its tuition guarantee to cover families earning under $200,000 and will fully cover cost of attendance for families below $100,000; at the same time, Nevada’s System of Higher Education voted to raise tuition by up to 12% at four‑year campuses—and 9% at two‑year colleges—phased over three years to cover a looming budget gap. Yale’s policy expands its long‑running ‘zero parent share’ program and aligns with similar moves by other elite institutions to broaden tuition relief; university officials said the change will make affordability clearer for far more families. In Nevada, leaders approved the hike to replace expiring bridge funding and to avert job cuts and deferred maintenance backlogs, prompting student protests and warnings about access. The contrast underscores diverging fiscal realities across the sector: wealthy private institutions are redeploying endowment resources to blunt sticker shock, while public systems facing state funding cliffs are shifting costs to students to maintain operations and services.