The phrase "academic elites" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to individuals or groups who hold significant influence or authority in academic circles, often associated with higher education or scholarly pursuits.
Example: "The conference was dominated by discussions led by academic elites who shaped the future of research in their fields."
Alternatives: "scholarly elite" or "intellectual elite".
International, regional and bilateral donors and development banks have catered to Haiti's predatory political, economic, religious and academic elites and their profitable private school business.
When the history of how a good crisis went to waste gets written up, it will surely contain a big chapter on the failure of our academic elites.
DAVOS, Switzerland — With Europe in a sharp slowdown and the United States forging only a slow recovery, the business and academic elites gathering here are scouring the global landscape for any new economic success story.
The films do not really function as partisan political tools; if anything, they share a populist impulse that finds its devils mostly in the interlocking political, business and academic elites.
Then almost overnight CNN's Lou Dobbs won a large following by transforming himself from a placid newscaster into a populist foe of illegal immigration, "global jihadists" and "political and academic elites".
At the time of his death in 2013 he was facing federal prosecution for data theft; he had systematically downloaded the archives of the digital library JSTOR, which he believed should be accessible by everyone, not just academic elites.
The academic elite in Cuba initially scorned him for lacking a Ph.D.
But outside of a small academic elite, it doesn't matter.
In New York, the Bronx High School of Science and Stuyvesant High School are geared toward the academic elite.
When American test scores are compared with those from Europe and Asia, all American students are weighed against a small academic elite.
They have gone from being considered part of the academic elite to being seen as amusing conservatives.
