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| In 1996 Kieve staff, administrators and trustees undertook a careful
long-range planning process to ensure that programs, which had been performing
so well, would continue. The Board of Trustees then launched the Campaign
for Kieve to increase the endowment and student scholarships, provide
funding for retention of experienced faculty, and to purchase a magnificent
piece of saltwater property in Bremen to support Kieve’s expanding
ocean programs. |
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Having secured Kieve’s basic
spirit and values with that successful campaign, the trustees next studied
the serious physical needs of a campus that was built eight decades
ago for a two-month season. Today’s programs require year-round
space for some 9,000 kids a year, space that is heated in the fall,
winter and spring, better ventilated in the summer, and that has infrastructure
systems to
support health, safety and educational requirements. The campus has been retrofitted
over the years where possible. But some buildings, put up hastily and modestly
(to put it delicately) some 60 years ago, must be replaced altogether. |
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| In 2001 Kieve hired the firm of Beckstrom Architecture and Planning
of Rockport, Maine to develop a facilities plan to address the physical
plant’s shortcomings. Over the next two years a master plan for
campus renewal emerged that would support Kieve programs for the foreseeable
future without sacrificing the rustic tranquility that makes Kieve such
a special place. |
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The plan embraces a commitment to building “green” for
the future: that is, to develop a campus that is efficient in the use
of resources (energy, water, space), that uses the best technology for
waste treatment and erosion control, encourages the use of local non-toxic
materials, and reduces the cost of maintenance and energy consumption
over the long term. The plan also will enhance Kieve’s natural
surroundings by relocating paths and moving parking to the fringes of
the campus. |
