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| Motto | Mens Regnum bona possidet "An Honest Heart Is a Kingdom in Itself" (LIU Post) Urbi et Orbi "To the City and the World" or "for the city (Rome) and the world" also "To the city [Rome] and to the globe" --- a blessing of the Pope (Long Island University) |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 1951; 74 years ago (1951) |
| President | Kimberly R. Cline |
Academic staff | 341 full-time |
| Undergraduates | 5,169 |
| Postgraduates | 3,303 |
| Location | , New York ,United States |
| Campus | Suburban, 307.9acres (1.246 km2) |
| Nickname | Sharks |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division I |
| Website | www.liu.edu/post |
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LIU Post, formally theC.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to asC.W. Post, is aprivate university inBrookville, New York, United States. Located onLong Island, it is part ofLong Island University (LIU), and the largest school in the LIU system.
The campus is named afterC.W. Post, father ofMarjorie Merriweather Post, who sold her Long Island estate known as Hillwood to Long Island University in 1951 for $200,000 ($2,422,821 today).[1] Three years after acquiring the property, LIU renamed it C.W. Post College in honor of Post's father.[2]
LIU Post is located on 307 acres (1.24 km2) of rolling hills inBrookville, New York, on Long Island'sNorth Shore. The area is sometimes datelined asGreenvale, because there is no "Brookville" post office, and the school is in the zip code that is served by the Greenvale post office, which is to the west.Greenvale station is the nearestLong Island Rail Road station.
Humanities Hall and Life Sciences/Pell Hall are the main educational buildings on campus, and house most of the core curriculum classes. Classes are also held in Hoxie Hall, Roth Hall, Lorber Hall, the Theater Film and Dance building, Sculpture Studio, Crafts Center, Fine Arts Center, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, and the Kahn Discovery Center.
TheTilles Center for the Performing Arts is on the west side of the campus. Previously known as the Bush-Brown Concert Theater (named for the longtime Long Island University chancellor Dr. Albert Bush-Brown), the Tilles Center has hosted many musical and theatrical events.[3]
The Hillwood Commons serves as the student activities center, and also houses several administrative offices, including financial aid and bursars office, as well as the Promise office which handles all student day-to-day activities (classes, student organizations, housing, etc).[4] Hillwood has a study lounge, commuter lounge, recreation lounge, and TV lounge (located on opposite sides of the two-story building) that are open as long as Hillwood is open. The Hillwood Cafe, Subway, and Starbucks are all located here and serve as the main dining areas, along with the Winnick Student Center serving as the single dining hall on campus for residential students.[5]
The Hillwood Commons serves as a meeting area for resident and commuter students to get to know each other through informal association outside of the classroom. The Hillwood Commons area also houses the Campus Concierge, Hillwood Computer Lab, Hillwood Cinema, School Bookstore, and multiple student run businesses, such as Browse (electronics store), The Student Body Collective (Clothing boutique), and Sharknation (merchandise shop).[6]
The university's C.W. Post Interfaith Chapel is home of the Interfaith Center, which provides both religious services as well as partnerships with community organizations.[7][8] The chapel was first conceived in 1968 by Bradley Delehanty and completed by the noted Long Island architectural firm Alfred Shaknis and Peter S. van Bloem in the classic Jeffersonian styleGeorgian architecture design as a tribute to all religious faiths. Included among its notable architectural features are a domed rotunda at the main sanctuary, as well as soaringDoric columns at the main entrance which call to mind the ancient RomanPantheon.[9][10]
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| Forbes[11] | 370 |
| U.S. News & World Report[12] | 369 |
LIU Post offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the following colleges and schools:
LIU Post is located about 25 miles (40 km) east fromNew York City. Students at the university predominantly come from easternLong Island,New York City, and theNew York metropolitan area, and there are a smaller number of students from elsewhere in the nation and from foreign nations. The university has eight Greek Life organizations on campus.
Long Island University's athletic teams are known as theLIU Sharks. They compete in theNational Collegiate Athletic Association at theDivision I level, the highest level of collegiate athletics. Prior to 2019, the university's athletic programs competed at theDivision II level. The programs are governed by the NCAA, theEastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), theEast Coast Conference (ECC), and theNortheast-10 Conference (NE-10). Prior to 2019, the two LIU campuses had two athletics teams, C.W. Post had theLIU Post Pioneers, and competed in Division II. TheLIU campus inBrooklyn competed at theDivision I level as theBlackbirds.
In July 2019, the two campuses merged their two athletics teams into a single unit competing in Division I, and assumed the name LIU Sharks.[13][14]
In addition to its NCAA-sanctioned athletic programs, students may participate in various sports, including basketball, racquetball, swimming, and volleyball, for leisure at the Pratt Recreation Center. There is a fitness center for aerobic and cardiovascular workouts on the campus. The athletic fields and courts are used for recreational baseball, football, soccer, softball, and tennis.[15]
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