Yale President Maurie McInnis said Yale helped erode public trust in higher education and pledged institutional follow-through after a faculty committee’s report. The committee’s self-examination points to tuition costs, admissions practices, and campus speech culture as drivers of skepticism, with 20 recommendations under review. The report recommends steps such as raising the income threshold for Yale’s “no tuition” guarantee over time while clarifying that the goal is affordability rather than full tuition elimination. It also calls for changes in undergraduate admissions, including reducing preferences for categories such as varsity athletes, legacies, and children of donors and faculty. Separately, another Yale piece describes the committee’s findings in more detail, including criticism that grade distributions and grading norms have become less informative. Together, the developments place elite admissions and outcomes transparency back on the center of the trust debate.