I saw this as a manager of contracts with universities.
And, it's not just colleges and Univs. So much of our educational system is loaded with layers of "administrators" with fake or useless positions, great salaries and bennies, and a gold plated retirement.
Comprehensive, scrupulous and thoroughly fair audits might be difficult, but they would be highly worth the effort.
They could cut the cost of tuition in half just by cutting the number of staff in half. Even more if the reduced the positions to about one third their size.
Bureaucracies are like cancer, they metastasize very quickly ............