Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications (JCET), 1978-1986

This subseries documents Fratkin's work, from 1978 to 1986, as a member and, from 1984, president of the JCET. Founded in 1950 as the Joint Committee on Educational Television, and later the Joint Council on Educational Television, this organization had the original aim of persuading the Federal Communications Commission to reserve broadcast channels for non-commercial television. Now, with the new name Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications, the organization serves as "a consortium of national and regional non-profit organizations and associations in education, public broadcasting, telecommunications, and library and information sciences." Issues considered by the JCET include Instructional Television Fixed Service, AT&T rates and tariffs, deregulation, and JCET administrative matters. Materials are arranged chronologically and include correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, agendas, clippings, and Fratkin's notes.