Arthur Robert Taylor (July 6, 1935 – December 3, 2015) was an American businessman. Taylor was born in

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graduate of

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. He began his corporate career with the

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. He was later Vice President Finance and Executive Vice President of

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. He was president of

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from 1972 until 1976. He then founded Arthur Taylor & Company, a private investment concern. In 1985,

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named him dean of its Graduate School of Business Administration. Taylor also served as president of

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for a decade (1992–2002), during which Muhlenberg tripled its endowment, halved its debt, and saw a significant rise in admissions selectivity. Despite these institutional successes, Taylor's resignation in 2002 followed several meetings by the College Board of Trustees over his increasingly concerning behavior; this included an ongoing investigation by the Board that Taylor had been sexually harassing employees, supplemented by an anonymously-authored document submitted to the Board detailing those actions and other inappropriate behaviors. At present, he is the College's only confirmed entry in the Academic Sexual Misconduct Database. He was a former member of the Steering Committee of the

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. He was married to Kathryn Pelgrift Taylor. Arthur Taylor died on December 3, 2015 from pulmonary failure in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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