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| Motto | Urbi et Orbi (Latin) |
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Motto in English | To the city and to the world |
| Type | Private university |
| Established | 1926 (100 years ago) (1926) |
| Endowment | $510.15 million (2025)[1] |
| President | Kimberly R. Cline |
Academic staff | 962 (fall 2023)[2] |
| Students | 16,322 (fall 2023)[2] |
| Undergraduates | 11,753 (fall 2023)[2] |
| Postgraduates | 4,569 (fall 2023)[2] |
| Location | , U.S. |
| Campus | Urban, LIU Brooklyn, 11 acres (4.5 ha) Suburban, LIU Post, 330 acres (130 ha) |
| Newspaper | The Tide |
| Colors | Blue and gold[3] |
| Nickname | Sharks |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Div I –NEC |
| Website | liu.edu |
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Long Island University (LIU) is aprivateresearch university inBrooklyn andBrookville, New York, United States. LIU isclassified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.[4] The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses,LIU Brooklyn andLIU Post onLong Island, in addition to non-residential locations and online. TheLIU Sharks athletic teams compete inNCAA Division I as aNortheast Conference member. LIU hosts and sponsors the annualGeorge Polk Awards in journalism.
LIU was chartered by theNew York State Education Department in 1926 inBrooklyn, to provide "effective and moderately priced education" to people from "all walks of life".[5]LIU Brooklyn is located in Downtown Brooklyn, at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues. The main building adjoins the 1920s movie houseParamount Theatre; the building retains much of the original decorative detail and a fully operationalWurlitzer organ. The campus consists of nine academic buildings; a recreation and athletic complex that includes Division I regulation athletic fields; one on-campus and two nearby residential buildings; and an adjoining parking facility.
The campus is home to the university's oldest school, the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, founded in 1891 as the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy,[6] andLIU Global, a four-year bachelor's degree program that allows students to live and study internationally in eight countries across eight semesters.[7]
The LIU athletic teams, the Sharks, compete at theNCAA Division I level[8] The university sponsors theGeorge Polk Awards for excellence in journalism,[9] and hosts and manages the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts.
In 1951, in response to a growing number of families moving to the suburbs, LIU purchased an 177-acre (72 ha) estate known asHillwood from cereal heiressMarjorie Merriweather Post and her third husband Joseph E. Davies.[10] Located inBrookville onLong Island'sGold Coast, the original home, Warburton Hall, was built by William A. Prime and was extensively renovated by Marjorie and her second husbandEdward F. Hutton. Three years later, the campus was renamed C. W. Post, in honor of Marjorie Post's fatherC. W. Post, a pioneering food entrepreneur.
In 2012, the university renamed all campuses. C. W. Post is nowLIU Post, the university's largest campus, at 307 acres (125 hectares) of historic 1920s mansions, gardens, athletic fields, art studios and performing arts space, broadcast television and radio stations, an on-campussustainable energy facility, and the only on-campusequestrian facility on Long Island. LIU Post was home to theNCAA Division IILIU Post Pioneers and is the site of the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. The school introduced its first online degree plan in 2004.
In March 2013, LIU named Kimberly R. Cline the university's tenth president. She is the first woman to lead the private, six-campus institution.[11]
Cline outsourced the work of two groups of previouslyunionized workers on campus, and oversaw thelockout of 400 faculty on the day prior to the beginning of the 2016–17 school year.[12]
On September 1, 2016, three days after the union's contract expired and five days before the union was due to vote on the new contract,[13] the university cut off the affected staff's email accounts and health insurance, and told them they would be replaced.[14] This was the first time that a college or university in the United States has used a lockout against its faculty members, according to William A. Herbert, executive director of theNational Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.[15]
Following the lockout, theAmerican Association of University Professors released a statement that it "deplores this action and supports the right of the LIU Brooklyn faculty to collectively bargain in good faith with its administration", and urged the LIU administration to resume negotiations.[16] In the first week of the autumn term, some students at LIU Brooklyn staged awalkout in support of the locked-out teaching staff.[17]
With the 236 full-time faculty members and 450 adjuncts locked out, classes were taught by university administrators and temporary staff, and students reported inadequate instruction.[18] The lockout ended on September 14 with an agreement to continue the expired contract until May 31, 2017, and resume negotiations with amediator.[19][20]
In response to theCOVID-19 pandemic, Long Island University moved all classes to online instruction for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester.[21] Following astay-at-home order from then-GovernorAndrew Cuomo directing all non-essential businesses to work remotely, administrative and academic offices began operating virtually and LIU fired or furloughed employees whose work was perceived as non-amenable to working remotely, including 84 of 98 unionized employees.[22][21][23]
Instruction in summer 2020 was conducted online and LIU began offering in-person instruction again beginning on September 8, 2020, with online options for people unable to attend lectures.[24] Following the Thanksgiving recess, all instruction became online, with LIU resuming in-person instruction starting on February 1, 2021, at the start of the spring semester.
LIU is administered by a president and a 27-member[25] board of trustees who elect the president.
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LIU Brooklyn includes:
LIU Post includes:
The Vet School's inaugural class began instruction in fall 2020. At the time of its founding, there were only 30 vet colleges in the United States.[26] For over 150 years, the only vet school in the state was theNew York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[27] However, political pressure grew for a second school in the New York City area. In May 2018, New York State granted $12 million to LIU to develop a vet school.[26] Pre-clinical instruction is based in Brentwood, NY. Instead of developing its own veterinary hospital, LIU's clinical programs are taught at existing veterinary hospitals and practices.[28] The LIU Vet School has received a provisional accreditation and will award its first DVM degrees in 2024.[29]
LIU Brentwood offers undergraduate and/or graduate programs in education, special education, literacy, mental health counseling, school counseling, psychology, criminal justice, and nursing.
LIU Hudson offers graduate and advanced certificate programs in business, public administration, pharmaceutics, education (early childhood, childhood, literacy, special education, and TESOL), educational leadership, school counseling, school psychology, mental health counseling, and marriage and family therapy.
LIU Riverhead is home to the Homeland Security Management Institute, which offershomeland security training. The institute has been designated a "Homeland Security Center of Excellence" by theUnited States Congress. Programs are also available in education, special education, literacy, communication studies, new media, cyber security, applied behavior analysis, andTESOL.
The 2025 edition ofU.S. News & World Report ranked LIU 359th among National Universities.[30]
On October 3, 2018, Long Island University announced that it was unifying the athletic programs of its two campuses into one Division I program, effective with the 2019–20 academic year.[31] The new program's nickname of Sharks was announced on May 15, 2019.[32] The Sharks retain the Brooklyn campus's affiliation in theNortheast Conference.
The Sharks added two completely new women's sports effective in 2019–20. Shortly before the athletic merger was announced, LIU Brooklyn announced that it would add women's ice hockey; that sport will carry over to the unified program.[33] Shortly after the merger announcement, LIU announced it would add women's water polo, placing that sport in theMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference.[34]
LIU Public Radio,WCWP, broadcasts on 88.1.
LIU Brooklyn'sstudent newspaper isSeawanhaka, and LIU Post's student newspaper isThe Tide.[35]
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