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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 ...
In 2012, the university renamed all campuses. C. W. Post is now LIU 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-campus sustainable energy facility, and the only on-campus equestrian facility on Long Island.
Marjorie sold the estate in 1951 for $200,000 to Long Island University, which founded its residential C.W. Post College in 1954, marking the 100th anniversary of C. W. Post's birth. For a while named the C.W. Post Center and then the C.W. Post Campus, what was C.W. Post College has now become mainly a commuter campus called LIU/Post, and it ...
Following Long Island University's founding in 1927, its sports teams wore blue uniforms and became known as the Blue Devils. After the school's uniforms were changed to black in 1935, a Brooklyn Eagle reporter from the Midwest saw the new look as the basketball team dribbled up and down the court and stated that the team looked like the blackbirds from back home; the comment struck home, and ...
LIU Post Pioneers. The LIU Post Pioneers (also Long Island–Post Pioneers and formerly the C.W. Post Pioneers) were the athletic teams that represented the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, located in Brookville, New York, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports through the 2018–19 school year. The Pioneers most recently ...
LIU reinstated the football program in 1957 on the university's new campus in Brookville, New York and football joined the sport offerings at C.W. Post College in the 1957 season. [ 3 ] 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 ...
Long Island University. LIU Post (formerly C.W. Post), Brookville; LIU Brooklyn; Manhattan School of Music, Morningside Heights; Manhattanville University, Purchase; Marist College, Poughkeepsie; Marymount Manhattan College, Upper East Side, Manhattan; Mercy University. Dobbs Ferry (main campus) Manhattan at 47 West 34th Street (extension campus)
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