James A. Robinson (American political scientist)

James Arthur Robinson (born 1932) is an American academic who in 1974-87 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]

Selected works

• Decision-making in Congress (1965)^[4]
• State Legislative Innovation (1973)^[5]
• He is also the author of a biography of President Richard Nixon.

References

1. "about UWF". Pensacola, Florida: University of West Florida. Archived from the original on 5 April 2004.
2. "Marion Viccars Award" (PDF). The Fountain. 40 (10): 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2006.
3. "UWF - President's Division - Presidents of UWF July 1964 - 2008<". Pensacola, Florida: University of West Florida. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013.
4. Robinson, James Arthur (1965). Decision-making in Congress. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. OCLC 51526315.
5. Robinson, James Arthur (1973). State legislative innovation. New York: Praeger. OCLC 251944194.