LIU Post, formally the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to as C.W. Post, is a private university in Brookville, New York, United States. Located on Long Island, it is part of Long Island University (LIU), and the largest school in the LIU system.
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History
The campus was originally 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 ($2,480,769 today). "Hillwood" was built 30 years earlier and shares a title with her Washington D.C. Estate. Three years after acquiring the property, LIU renamed it C.W. Post College in honor of Post's father.
Campus
LIU Post is located on 307 acres (1.24 km2) of rolling hills in Brookville, New York, on Long Island's North Shore. The area is sometimes datelined as Greenvale, 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 nearest Long Island Rail Road station.
On the property, numerous historic estates have been repurposed for various uses. Adjoining "Hillwood," Adelaide Breevort Close's residence (constructed a few years after Marjorie Post's mansion), is now the admissions office. Similarly, the J. Randolph Robinson residence is now Bush-Brown Hall, "Hutfield" is now used for an arts building, and "Mariemont" is now Hutton Hall.
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.
The Tilles 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.
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). 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.
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).
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. 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 style Georgian 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 soaring Doric columns at the main entrance which call to mind the ancient Roman Pantheon.
Academics
LIU Post offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the following colleges and schools:
College of Communications, Art, and Design
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
College of Management
College of Education, Information and Technology
School of Health Professions and Nursing
Lewyt College of Veterinary Medicine
Student life
LIU Post is located about 25 miles (40 km) east from New York City. Students at the university predominantly come from eastern Long Island, New York City, and the New 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.
Athletics
Long Island University's athletic teams are known as the LIU Sharks. They compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I level, the highest level of collegiate athletics. Prior to 2019, the university's athletic programs competed at the Division II level. The programs are governed by the NCAA, the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), the East Coast Conference (ECC), and the Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10). Prior to 2019, the two LIU campuses had two athletics teams, C.W. Post had the LIU Post Pioneers, and competed in Division II. The LIU campus in Brooklyn competed at the Division I level as the Blackbirds.
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.
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.
Notable faculty
T. K. Blue, leader of the jazz band
Bob Brier, Egyptologist and mummy specialist
Paul Kim, musician
Notable alumni
Rocky Aoki, founder of Benihana restaurants
A.J. Benza, TV show host and actor
Penny Budoff, physician and women's health expert
Frank Catalanotto, baseball player
Dave Cohen, '88; final head college football coach for Hofstra University
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates investment firm
Ted David, CNBC anchor
Janet DiFiore, former Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Mike Gange, of The Howard Stern Show
Joe Gatto, comedian, executive producer of Impractical Jokers, owner Gatto Pups And Friends
Charles J. Gradante, hedge fund expert
Alan Hahn, MSG Network studio analyst, co-host of daily ESPN Radio sports talk show
Jackee Harry, actress
Bunny Hoest, cartoonist of The Lockhorns comic strip
Ernie Hudson Jr., actor
Al Kahn, former chairman and CEO of 4Kids Entertainment and university board member
Jamie Kellner, chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System