The end state is very close to the starting state, unfortunately. Bureaucracies that select their own incoming ranks are very, very hard to reform from the outs

The end state is very close to the starting state, unfortunately. Bureaucracies that select their own incoming ranks are very, very hard to reform from the outside. The liberal reforms of the 18th and 19th centuries such as checks and balances were devised to counteract this tendency. Many universities predate these reforms.