What’s Wrong With NEA Literature

by Richard Kostelanetz (July 2013)

A second trick employed by scheming administrators is establishing prerequisites not only to favor certain possible recipients but to exclude others. At NYSCA, notorious NYSCA, these prerequisites could be cited when the administrators wanted to exclude from competitions certain applicants while neglected in accepting those applications favored by the administrators, who thus became de facto judges, exceeding their assigned role. This analysis led me to conclude with this rule: The function of exclusionary criteria is giving administrators judicial powers to which they are not entitled and, thus, additional rules are designed to give administrators more power. Keep this rule in mind as you read ahead.

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