You know what would be huge in Masters and Doctoral education?

An inspector general!

Programs would have to keep files on a rotating basis on advisees, response time of professors to advisees, etc., where they'd go back 2 years and gather info for a few randomly drawn profs.

Then, an inspector general would review these files against original documentation, and maybe open up larger inquiries where there appeared to be uncorrected malfeasance.

That kind of thing would really make tenured professors "toe the line," especially if it was combo'ed with fines against individuals, department chairs, DGSes, and departments, since there'd be a price to pay for bad behavior and poor project management.

It also makes sense from the public funding side, to make sure that our money spent on education and research is well-spent.

These types of accountability issues have surfaced in local governance for over a century, and it's sort of surprising that productive reform approaches haven't been introduced into universities, especially since everyone knows that tenured professors often don't do work or do it poorly, with no consequences!