LIU Post

LIU Post

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)
Type	Private
Established	1954
President	Kimberly R. Cline
Academic staff	341 full-time
Undergraduates	5,169
Postgraduates	3,303
Location	Brookville , New York , 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]