James Arthur Robinson (born 1932) is an American academic who from 1974 to 1987 served as the second president of the University of West Florida (UWF). [1]
Robinson received his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University in 1958. After a stint at Ohio State University, he subsequently became a professor at UWF, where as president, he established the Marion Viccars Award, which recognizes superior performance and accomplishments of faculty and administrators at UWF. [2] In 1979, as president, Robinson restructured the university's colleges to traditional arts and sciences, business and education, and switched the university to a semester basis in 1981. [3]
Following his tenure as UWF president, Robinson focused his academic efforts on issues such as democratization and Taiwan electoral politics.