Educational Television (ETV): Minnesota Private College Hour, 1957-1960; 2011 | Carleton College Archives

Documents Carleton's involvement with the Minnesota Private College Hour, an educational television series produced by the ETV Committee of the Minnesota Private College Council and KTCA-TV.  Carleton produced three series of programs for the college hour between the fall of 1958 and the winter of 1960, two on arts and the artist and one on the world of mathematics.  Most of the programs featured lectures or discussions by or with members of the Carleton faculty, although some were dramatic readings of literary works.  (Descriptions of the programs in the three series can be found by reading he programing schedules, news releases, and scripts in the record group.)  The "college hour" ran until 1962.  (For information on Carleton's later involvement with educational TV, please see the Dean of the College, 1945-65 record group.)

The bulk of the documents in this record group consist of minutes of ETV Committee meetings, the correspondence of Carleton's ETV coordinators, Carleton news releases announcing the programs, and the scripts of some of the Carleton productions.  Neither the minutes nor the scripts are complete.  Much of the corresondence is with Carleton faculty, concerning their efforts for the "college hour"  Also worth noting in this regard is the faculty question-naire, which sought volunteers for future programs and solicited comments on past productions.  Also worth mentioning are the two reports contained in the record group:  one is the committee report to the Minnesota Council of Private Colleges; the other is the Upper Midwest Six State Educational Television Network Survey.