Pol Pot, the evil dictator of Cambodia, was opposed by academia in the nineties. He didn’t waste his time killing them. He simply closed the universities and drove the protesring students and instructors into the jungle where they died. This group of privileged individuals lives off the labor of others and is ill-equipped for life outside their ivory towers. Taking advice from them is foolish, as Obama and his university-heavy administration have amply proven.
It's also foolish to hold Pol Pot up to any positive standard of appreciation - he was a monster from hell.