I assume Daniels is learning about this now, but he may have very limited influence. College administrations are layered with politically correct liberal bureaucrats, and short of firing the relevant dean(s) (which may well be the appropriate next step) Daniels is pretty isolated from the day to day actions and policies of various deans. It will take heroic, determined efforts for Daniels to hope to change this sort of problem... let’s see if he has it in him.
All it takes to rein in the public colleges is having the state governments taking back control. Think you have tenure? You don’t if tenure doesn’t exist if the laws says that it doesn’t. Any larger program set up by a government can be undone by the next government.. Laws regarding hiring and firing, retirement and public employee rights are not a contract and the only way a government can be forced to do something is through the political process, bribery and/or war.
In most cases university presidents are fund raisers and PR people who wield very little actual power. The deans, bueracrats and unions run the universities.
I had a friend who was a controller for a big ten university just a few years back. The deans and nearly half dozen unions she had to deal with ignored her, the state laws, the legislature and administration. She left after about one year not wanting to lose her reputation in the massive corruption at this university.