Long Island University#Athletics

{{Infobox university

| image = Long_Island_University_Seal.png

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| name = Long Island University

| established = {{start date and age|1926|p=y}}

| mottoeng = To the city and to the world

| endowment = $224.4 million (2020)As of June 30, 2020. {{cite report |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx |title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA |date=February 19, 2021 |access-date=February 20, 2021}}

| president = Kimberly R. Cline

| faculty = 962 (fall 2023){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/institution-profile/192448 |title=Institution Data Profile - Long Island University |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=January 19, 2025 }}

| students = 16,322 (fall 2023)

| undergrad = 11,753 (fall 2023)

| postgrad = 4,569 (fall 2023)

| city = Brooklyn and Brookville, New York

| country = U.S.

| campus = Urban, LIU Brooklyn, {{cvt|11|acre}}
Suburban, LIU Post, {{convert|330|acre}}

| athletics_affiliations = NCAA
Div I – NEC

| free_label = Newspaper

| free = The Tide

| colors = Blue and gold{{cite web|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/longislandu/documents/2019/7/25/LIU_Style_Guide.pdf |title= Long Island University Style Guide for Print and Visual Application |publisher=liu.edu |access-date=August 16, 2021}}
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| sports_nickname = Sharks

| website = {{URL|https://www.liu.edu}}

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Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long Island, in addition to non-residential locations and online. The LIU Sharks athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I as a Northeast Conference member. LIU hosts and sponsors the annual George Polk Awards in journalism.

History

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=20th century=

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."{{cite web|url=http://www.liu.edu/Brooklyn/About/History|title=Campus History |publisher=Long Island University}} 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; the building retains much of the original decorative detail and a fully operational Wurlitzer organ. 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, the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, founded in 1891 as the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy,{{cite web|url=http://www.liu.edu/pharmacy |title=LIU Pharmacy |publisher=Liu.edu |access-date=March 6, 2016}} and LIU Global, a four-year bachelor's degree program that allows students to live and study internationally in eight countries across eight semesters.{{cite web|url=http://www.liu.edu/global |title=LIU Global |publisher=Liu.edu |access-date=March 6, 2016}}

The LIU athletic teams, the Sharks, compete at the NCAA Division I level{{cite web|url=http://www.liuathletics.com |title=LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds |publisher=Liuathletics.com |access-date=March 6, 2016}} The university sponsors the George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism,{{cite web|url=http://www.liu.edu/polk |title=LIU George Polk Awards |publisher=Liu.edu |access-date=March 6, 2016}} and hosts and manages the Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts.

In 1951, in response to a growing number of families moving to the suburbs, LIU purchased an {{convert|177|acre|adj=on}} estate known as Hillwood from cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her third husband Joseph E. Davies.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/10/26/archives/liu-takes-over-long-island-estate.html |title=L.I.U. TAKES OVER LONG ISLAND ESTATE |date=October 26, 1951 |work=The New York Times}} Located in Brookville on Long Island's Gold Coast, the original home, Warburton Hall, was 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 C. W. Post, a pioneering food entrepreneur.

=21st century=

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.

In March 2013, LIU named Kimberly R. Cline the university's tenth president. She is the first woman to lead the private, six-campus institution.{{cite web |title=LIU names first female chief executive, Kimberly Cline |url=http://www.newsday.com/long-island/liu-names-first-female-chief-executive-kimberly-cline-1.4770595 |work=Newsday |access-date=March 7, 2013}}

==2016–17 lockout==

Cline outsourced the work of two groups of previously unionized workers on campus, and oversaw the lockout of 400 faculty on the day prior to the beginning of the 2016–17 school year.{{cite web|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/classes-start-at-liu-brooklyn-on-september-7-but-faculty-are-locked-out/|title=Classes Start at LIU Brooklyn on September 7—but Faculty Are Locked Out|work=The Nation}}

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,{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/08/long-island-university-lockout-faculty-education |title= Locking out professors is an affront to education |work=The Guardian|date=September 8, 2016}} the university cut off the affected staff's email accounts and health insurance, and told them they would be replaced.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/an-unprecedented-faculty-lockout/499016/ |title=An Unprecedented Faculty Lockout |last=Semuels |first=Alana|date=September 7, 2016 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US|access-date=March 6, 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/06/liu-brooklyn-campus-contract-dispute-faculty-union-tells-400-professors-they-will-be|title=LIU Brooklyn campus, in contract dispute with faculty union, tells 400 professors they will be replaced|work=Inside Higher Ed}}

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.{{cite web|last1=American Association of University Professors|title=Statement on LIU Brooklyn Lockout|url=https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2016-LIUBrooklyn-9-6.pdf|access-date=September 9, 2016|archive-date=October 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001234230/https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2016-LIUBrooklyn-9-6.pdf|url-status=dead}} In the first week of the autumn term, some students at LIU Brooklyn staged a walkout in support of the locked-out teaching staff.{{cite news|url=http://abc7ny.com/education/students-at-liu-brooklyn-walk-out-in-support-of-professors-in-contract-dispute/1503938/|title= Students At LIU Brooklyn Walk Out In Support Of Professors In Contract Dispute |publisher=WABC-TV|date=September 8, 2016}}

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.{{cite news |url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/As-Lockout-Continues-at-Long/237731|title= As Lockout Continues at Long Island U., Students Report Meager Classroom Instruction|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=September 9, 2016}} The lockout ended on September 14 with an agreement to continue the expired contract until May 31, 2017, and resume negotiations with a mediator.{{cite news|last1=Jaschik|first1=Scott|title=LIU Faculty Lockout Ends|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/09/15/union-announces-end-faculty-lockout-long-island-u|access-date=September 16, 2016|work=Inside Higher Ed|date=September 15, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Bromwich|first1=Jonah Engel|last2=Robbins|first2=Liz|title=Faculty Lockout at L.I.U.-Brooklyn Ends With Contract Agreement|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/nyregion/faculty-lockout-at-liu-brooklyn-ends-with-contract-agreement.html |access-date=September 16, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=September 14, 2016}}

==COVID-19 pandemic==

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Long Island University moved all classes to online instruction for the remainder of the Spring 2020 semester.{{cite web |title=Coronavirus Update |url=https://liu.edu/coronavirus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326182955/https://liu.edu/coronavirus |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 26, 2020 |website=Long Island University |access-date=March 26, 2020}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Despite millions in federal aid, LIU fires and furloughs dozens of union workers left without health care during global pandemic|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-long-island-university-covid-20200524-fxsp5vbz3jagjkfu2ite3hqcxy-story.html|last=McShane|first=Larry|website=nydailynews.com|date=May 24, 2020 |access-date=May 26, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/liu-post-lay-offs-1.43426351|title=LIU Post 'temporarily' lays off dozens of employees|website=Newsday|language=en|access-date=March 26, 2020}}

Instruction in Summer 2020 was conducted online and LIU began offering in-person instruction again beginning September 8, 2020, with online options for people unable to attend lectures.{{cite web|url=https://liu.edu/reopening-liu|title=Reopening LIU|access-date=August 10, 2020}} 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{{cite web|url=https://www.liu.edu/Office-of-the-President/Board-of-Trustees|title=Board of Trustees|access-date=August 10, 2020}} board of trustees who elect the president.

Campuses

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=LIU Brooklyn=

LIU Brooklyn includes:

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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
School of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
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

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=LIU Post=

LIU Post includes:

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College of Veterinary Medicine
College of Education, Information & Technology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Business
School of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
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

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=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. 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, New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.vet.cornell.edu/about-us/our-history|title=Timeline and History|access-date=August 10, 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://headlines.liu.edu/?p=1779|title=LIU plans NY Metropolitan Area's First Veterinary College with Governor Cuomo's Announcement of $12M in State Transformative Funds|date=May 25, 2018|access-date=August 1, 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.liu.edu/vetmed/education/clinical-affiliations|title=Clinical Affiliate Sites|access-date=August 1, 2020}} The LIU Vet School has received a provisional accreditation and will award its first DVM degrees in 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.liu.edu/vetmed/education/faq|title=Frequently Asked Questions|access-date=August 1, 2020}}

=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

In 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked LIU 359th among National Universities.{{cite web |title=Long Island University's 2025 Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/long-island-university-667002 |website=usnews.com |publisher= U.S. News & World Report, L.P. |access-date=September 29, 2024}}

Athletics

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.{{cite web |url=http://athletics.liu.edu/faqs/ |title=One LIU: Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=Long Island University |access-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012014615/http://athletics.liu.edu/faqs/ |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |url-status=dead }} The new program's nickname of Sharks was announced on May 15, 2019.{{cite press release|url=https://headlines.liu.edu/?p=2700 |title=Welcome to the Shark Tank: Long Island University Chooses the Shark as New Mascot |publisher=Long Island University |date=May 15, 2019 |access-date=May 16, 2019}} 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.{{cite press release |url=https://liuathletics.com/news/2018/9/10/general-womens-ice-hockey-added-as-newest-varsity-sport-at-liu-brooklyn-morgan-tabbed-as-inaugural-head-coach.aspx |title=Women's Ice Hockey Added as Varsity Sport at LIU Brooklyn; Morgan Tabbed as Inaugural Head Coach |publisher=LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds |date=September 10, 2018 |access-date=September 21, 2018 |archive-date=July 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711072500/https://liuathletics.com/news/2018/9/10/general-womens-ice-hockey-added-as-newest-varsity-sport-at-liu-brooklyn-morgan-tabbed-as-inaugural-head-coach.aspx |url-status=dead }} Shortly after the merger announcement, LIU announced it would add women's water polo, placing that sport in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.{{cite press release |url=https://liuathletics.com/news/2018/10/11/general-womens-water-polo-added-as-varsity-sport-at-liu-brooklyn-juarez-tabbed-as-inaugural-head-coach.aspx |title=Women's Water Polo Added as Varsity Sport at LIU; Juarez Tabbed as Inaugural Head Coach |publisher=LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds |date=October 11, 2018 |access-date=October 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181012135125/https://liuathletics.com/news/2018/10/11/general-womens-water-polo-added-as-varsity-sport-at-liu-brooklyn-juarez-tabbed-as-inaugural-head-coach.aspx |archive-date=October 12, 2018 |url-status=dead }}

Media

LIU Public Radio, WCWP, broadcasts on 88.1.

LIU Brooklyn's student newspaper is Seawanhaka, and LIU Post's student newspaper is The Tide.http://liuthetide.com {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}

Notable alumni

Alex the Astronaut, Australian singer and songwriter
Shmuel Avishar, Israeli basketball player
Paul Broadie II, president, Santa Fe College
Vinnette Justine Carroll, former playwright, actress, and theatre director
Robert L. Caslen, U.S. Army general, 59th Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, and 29th president of the University of South Carolina
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkish politician, Grand National Assembly of Turkey member, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, investor, and philanthropist
Tony Fabrizio, Republican Party pollster and strategist
Joe Gatto, comedian and actor
Vin Lananna, Team USA Olympic coach, USA Track & Field president, former CEO of TrackTown USA, and the university's athletic director
Barry Leibowitz (born 1945), American-Israeli basketball player in the American Basketball Association and the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Ivan Leshinsky, American-Israeli basketball player
Shawn Liao, basketball player and opera patron
Dov Markus, Israeli-American soccer player
Charles F. Masterson, special assistant to President Eisenhower
Dina Meyer, actress
Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament of India
Peter Nilsson, Swedish soccer player
Neil Raymond Ricco, poet and writer
Brenden Rodney, Canadian sprinter
Ossie Schectman, basketball player who scored the first basket in NBA history
Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy activist
Denise Vasi, actress

Notable faculty

Ivan Lee (born 1981), women's fencing team head coach and Olympic saber fencer, pled guilty to forcible touching and sexual abuse; banned for life by SafeSport{{Cite web |last=Peter |first=Josh |title=Hall of Fame fencer Ivan Lee pleads guilty to sex offenses against female college fencer |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/12/13/hall-of-fame-fencer-ivan-lee-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-abuse-charges/76955308007/ |access-date=January 3, 2025 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}[https://uscenterforsafesport.org/response-and-resolution/centralized-disciplinary-database/ "Ivan Lee"], SafeSport Centralized Disciplinary Database.
Berenice Robinson (1909-1990), author and composer