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.
Selected works
edit- Decision-making in Congress (1965)[4]
- State Legislative Innovation (1973)[5]
- He is also the author of a biography of President Richard Nixon.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ "about UWF". Pensacola, Florida: University of West Florida. Archived from the original on April 5, 2004.
- ^ "Marion Viccars Award" (PDF). The Fountain. 40 (10): 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 30, 2006.
- ^ "UWF - President's Division - Presidents of UWF July 1964 - 2008<". Pensacola, Florida: University of West Florida. Archived from the original on January 15, 2013.
- ^ Robinson, James Arthur (1965). Decision-making in Congress. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. OCLC 51526315.
- ^ Robinson, James Arthur (1973). State legislative innovation. New York: Praeger. OCLC 251944194.
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