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LIU Post is located on 307 acres (1.24 km 2) 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.
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.
The LIU Post Pioneers passed into history after the 2018–19 school year when LIU merged the Pioneers with the LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, the Division I program of the school's Brooklyn campus. The current LIU program now competes as the LIU Sharks, with the new nickname having been selected by polling of alumni and students of the two campuses. [2]
The Palmer School of Library and Information Science is part of Long Island University in New York, United States and offers a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science. According to its Graduate Bulletin, the school was founded as the Carlton and Winthrop Palmer Library School, on the then C.W. Post College of Long Island ...
The 1961 C. W. Post Pioneers football team was an American football team that represented C. W. Post College (now known as LIU Post) of Brookville, New York, as an independent during the 1961 college football season.
Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation. For much of Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States. [1] [2]
Jim Colbert (born c. 1948) is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at C. W. Post—now known as LIU Post—in Brookville, New York from 1980 to 1982, compiling a record of 15–16. [1]
LIU Post opened in 1954 as C.W. Post College and began athletic competition in 1956–57. The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and LIU Post Pioneers combined for 23 national championships (7 team, 16 individual), 215 conference titles, and 362 All-Americans.