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).

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. 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.