Long Island University

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Long Island University
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Motto Urbi et Orbi (Latin)
Motto in English
To the city and to the world
Type Private
Established1926;98 years ago (1926)
Endowment $224.4 million (2020) [1]
President Kimberly R. Cline
Academic staff
1400
Students15,000+
Location
Brooklyn and Brookville, New York
,
U.S.
CampusUrban, LIU Brooklyn, 11 acres (4.5 ha)
Suburban, LIU Post, 330 acres (130 ha)
NewspaperThe Tide
Colors Blue and gold [2]
  
Nickname Sharks
Sporting affiliations
 NCAA
Div I – NEC
Website www.liu.edu
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Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential locations. LIU has NCAA Division I athletics and hosts the annual George Polk Awards in journalism.

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History

LIU was chartered in 1926 in Brooklyn by the New York State Education Department to provide "effective and moderately priced education" to people from "all walks of life." [3] LIU Brooklyn is located in Downtown Brooklyn, at the corner of Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues. The main building adjoins the 1920s movie house, Paramount Theatre (now called the Schwartz Gymnasium), the building retains much of the original decorative detail and a fully operational Wurlitzer organ that rises from beneath the basketball court floorboards. [4] 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, LIU Pharmacy (Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences), founded in 1891 as the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, [5] and LIU Global, a four-year bachelor's degree program that allows students to live and study internationally in eight countries across eight semesters. [6] LIU Brooklyn is home to the NCAA Division I Blackbirds, [7] the George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism, [8] and Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts.

In 1951, in response to the growing number of families moving to the suburbs, LIU purchased an 177-acre (72 ha) estate known as Hillwood from cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her third husband Joseph E. Davies. [9] Located in the town of Brookville on Long Island's Gold Coast, the original home, Warburton Hall, had been built by William A. Prime and was extensively renovated by Marjorie and her second husband Edward F. Hutton. Three years later, the campus was renamed C. W. Post, in honor of Marjorie Post's father. 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. LIU Post was home to the NCAA Division II LIU Post Pioneers and is the site of the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. The school introduced its first online degree plan in 2004

On March 7, 2013, LIU named Kimberly R. Cline as its tenth president, becoming the first woman to lead the private, six-campus institution. [10]

President Kimberly R. Cline outsourced the work of two groups of previously unionized workers on campus, and oversaw the lockout of 400 faculty on the day before the 2016–17 school year. [11] 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, [12] the university cut off the affected staff's email accounts and health insurance, and told them they would be replaced. [13] This is 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 the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. [14] Following the lockout, the American 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. [15] In the first week of the autumn term, some students at LIU Brooklyn staged a walkout in support of the locked-out teaching staff. [16] 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. [17] The lockout ended on September 14 with an agreement to continue the expired contract until May 31, 2017, and resume negotiations with a mediator. [18] [19]

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Long Island University moved all classes to online instruction for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester. [20] Following a stay-at-home order from then-Governor Andrew 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. [21] [20] [22]

Instruction in Summer 2020 was conducted on-line and LIU began offering in-person instruction again beginning September 8, 2020, with on-line options for people unable to attend lectures. [23] 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.

Organization

LIU is administered by a president and a 27-member [24] board of trustees who elect the president.

Campuses

LIU Brooklyn

LIU Brooklyn includes:

  • LIU Pharmacy, the Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
  • LIU Global (formerly Global College)
  • Richard Conolly College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • School of Education
  • Harriet Rothkopf Heilbrunn School of Nursing
  • School of Professional and Continuing Studies
  • School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences
  • School of Arts & Communication
  • Honors College

LIU Post

LIU Post includes:

  • College of Veterinary Medicine
  • College of Education, Information & Technology
  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • School of Business
  • School of Professional Accountancy
  • School of Computer Science, Innovation & Management Engineering
  • School of Health Professions and Nursing
  • School of Visual Arts Communication & Design
  • School of Performing Arts
  • Honors College

College of Veterinary Medicine

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. [25] For over 150 years, the only vet school in the state was the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. [26] 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. [25] 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. [27] The LIU Vet School has received a provisional accreditation and will award its first DVM degrees in 2024. [28]

Other LIU locations

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 offers homeland security training. The institute has been designated a "Homeland Security Center of Excellence" by the United States Congress. Programs are also available in education, special education, literacy, communication studies, new media, cyber security, applied behavior analysis, and TESOL.

Ranking

For 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked LIU #369 in National Universities. [29]

Athletics

Unification

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. The unified LIU program will continue to sponsor all varsity sports that either campus sponsored before the merger. [30] The new program's nickname of Sharks was announced on May 15, 2019. [31] The Sharks retain the Brooklyn campus's affiliation in the Northeast 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. [32] Shortly after the merger announcement, LIU announced it would add women's water polo, placing that sport in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. [33]

Media

LIU Public Radio on 88.1 FM (WCWP). LIU Brooklyn's student newspaper is Seawanhaka, and LIU Post's student newspaper is The Tide [34] .

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy</span>

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The 2018–19 LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball team represented LIU Brooklyn during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Blackbirds were led by second-year head coach Derek Kellogg, and played their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center, with two home games at the Barclays Center, as members of the Northeast Conference (NEC). They finished the season 16–16 overall, 9–9 in NEC play to finish in a tie for fifth place. As the No. 6 seed in the NEC tournament, they advanced to the semifinals, where they were defeated by Saint Francis (PA).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LIU Sharks men's basketball</span> Basketball team representing Long Island University

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">LIU Sharks</span> Athletic teams representing Long Island University

The LIU Sharks are the athletics teams representing Long Island University's (LIU) campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York. The Sharks compete in NCAA Division I athletics and are members of the Northeast Conference. The LIU Sharks are the result of the July 1, 2019 unification of the athletic departments which had previously represented two separate campuses of LIU, the NCAA Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and the NCAA Division II LIU Post Pioneers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LIU Sharks football</span> College football team representing Long Island University

The LIU Sharks football program represents Long Island University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level. The Sharks are members of the Northeast Conference and play their home games in the 6,000 seat Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019–20 LIU Sharks men's basketball team</span> American college basketball season

The 2019–20 LIU Sharks men's basketball team represented Long Island University during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Sharks were led by third-year head coach Derek Kellogg, and played their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center, with some home games at the Barclays Center, as members of the Northeast Conference (NEC).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LIU Sharks women's ice hockey</span> College ice hockey team

The LIU Sharks women's ice hockey team represents Long Island University in NCAA Division I ice hockey competition as a member of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA). They play their home games at Islanders Iceworks in Syosset, New York and Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow, New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LIU Sharks women's basketball</span> Basketball team representing Long Island University

The LIU Sharks women's basketball team represents Long Island University in NCAA Division I basketball competition. They play their home games at their Brooklyn Campus in the Steinberg Wellness Center and are members of the Northeast Conference. Their current head coach is Rene Haynes, who was hired in April 2019.

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