100 Years of Minnesota's First Arboretum at Carleton College

Short Term indicators: We exceeded the measure we set for this project by finishing our work ten weeks ahead of schedule. We have a very committed team working on this project, including the consultants we hired and our student worker, a history major in his senior year. We had expected to receive a written assessment in the ninth month of the project period, but instead the project was finished in the ninth month.

Intermediate Term indicators: Most of our intermediate measures cannot yet be evaluated, but the participation by students in the project has been quite active. Our senior history major has been working ten hours per week on this project since September, and has had opportunities to conduct research in ways not normally available to undergraduate students. He has interacted with staff at the Northfield and Rice County historical societies and with the librarians at the Northfield Public Library. Students in the winter and spring courses, Historians for Hire,have benefited from the sources compiled during this project, and they will use it as they learn more about arboretum history.

Once our materials have been added to our campus resources, we will be able to track both the use of the bibliography and other materials from the College Archives website and the number of consultations with our librarians and other experts.,

Long Term indicators: We are well on our way to be able to publish our history to coincide with the Arboretum's centennial year of 2026-2027. We are in the process of writing grant proposals for additional resources to help pay for the writing and publication of the book, both internally and externally.