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Robert J. Waste
Department of Public Policy and Administration
Professor and Chair


Grant Development Activity

Personal involvement in successfully-funded grant activity over the past several years includes:

1988-Present Project Director or Principal Consultant on several funded projects for the CSU, Chico Survey Research Center, including projects funded by the California Senate Office of Research (SOR), the California Senate Rules Committee, the Northern California Higher Education Committee, and the Cities of San Diego, Inglewood, Monrovia, Redding, Yuba City, Lincoln, and the County of Shasta. Projects totaled more than $100,000 in University-related contract research to date.
1991-92 CSU Research Grant, Full-time research release, Fall Semester, 1991 . The funded research resulted in the preparation of R. Waste, "City Limits, Pluralism and Urban Political Economy, " Journal of Urban Affairs (Vol. 15, Winter 1994).
1990-91 Faculty Summer Research Grants, California State University, Chico, Summer 1990, and Summer 1991. The grants resulted in the preparation of R. Waste, "Of the Things that Policymaking Isn't, Which Is It Most Like? Agenda-Setting and the Baseball Analogy," a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 3-September 2, 1990; and, R. Waste, "Urban Poverty: What Do We Know, What Can We Do?", a paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Cleveland, April 29-May 2, 1992.
1984-85 San Diego State University, Faculty Grant-in-Aid Program. Several grants, including: a SDSU Affirmative Action Grant, 1984-85; and a SDSU Faculty Summer Research Grant, ,1985. The grants resulted in the publication of Robert Waste (ed.), Community Power: Directions for Future Research (Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications, Inc.).
1983-85 Generated private sector funds from Genstar Corporation for public policy studies on housing issues in San Diego County, 1986-87; and public sector funds for workshops and training sessions from the Texas Municipal League, 1987-89, and the City of San Diego, 1983-1990.
1980-81 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Summer Teaching Fellowship, Harvard University, Summer 1980; Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University, Department of Political Science, 1980-81. The funded research resulted in the publication of Robert Waste, Power and Pluralism in American Cities: Researching the Urban Laboratory (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 1987).
1974-76

Research Associate, National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded multi-city Bay Area study, "Policy Implementation Project" (PIP), a UC Davis/Berkeley/San Francisco State University cooperative multi-year research grant, 1974-78. The project resulted in the publication of Dale Rogers Marshall and Robert Waste, Large Cities and the Community Development Act (Davis, CA: University of California, Davis, Institute of Governmental Affairs, 1977); and, Rufus Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall and David Tabb, Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle for Black and Hispanic Equality in Cities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

 

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