I worry that there's no solution to these problems that won't displace very many workers. One man's cost is another man's salary.
That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that those "markets" are fundamentally distorted by the in-elasticity of demand. People generally need education and healthcare.
Coincidentally, that's the way almost all of the non-US world chooses to look at it.
The Humanities Dean isn't a revenue center for the college, and nobody is (knowingly) donating so s/he can get a new office.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Cal-footba...
The law school deans make $333,847. At the same time, Cal Athletics faces largest debt among all college programs.
https://www1.salary.com/CA/Berkeley/Dean-of-Law-salary.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-f...
So your humanities deans vs revenue digression is just whataboutism.
If Cal Athletics is in debt, they are doing it wrong.
Athletics salaries and facilities are very visible and often breathtaking, but in general they are not the cause of tuition inflation.
Because the Third Associate Dean of Humanities can't fund their $600k salary with the goodwill from a more reasonable tuition.
Snark aside, it's because the administrators are attacking a symptom - high tuition prices - and not the illness - administrative bloat and universities that are not run by academics, but by Professional Educators who in many cases have never taught a class in their lives, or haven't taught in the past n decades.