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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 |
President | Kimberly R. Cline |
Academic staff | 341 full-time |
Undergraduates | 5,169 |
Postgraduates | 3,303 |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Suburban, 307.9 acres (1.246 km2) |
Nickname | Sharks |
Sporting affiliations | NCAA Division I |
Website | www.liu.edu/post |
LIU Post, formally the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to as C. W. Post,[1] is a private university in Brookville, New York, on Long Island. It is part of Long Island University (LIU), and the largest university in the LIU system.
The campus is named after C. W. Post, father of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who sold her Long Island estate known as Hillwood to Long Island University in 1951 for $200,000 ($2,347,692 today).[2] Three years after acquiring the property, LIU renamed it C. W. Post College in honor of Post's father.[3]