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About Long Island UniversityBrooklyn Campus

Long Island University, more commonly referred to as simply LIU, is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education, located in Brooklyn, which is New York City’s most populated borough, having more than 2.5 million people, living within its limits, as well as the western most county on Long Island.

LIU was chartered in Brooklyn, in 1926, by the New York State Education Department, in order to provide `effective and moderately priced education` for people from `all walks of life`. In addition to the Brooklyn campus, which is the university’s permanent site, LIU also had other 2 campuses, in Brookville and Southampton, the Southampton campus being sold, in 2006, to the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook due to the fact that its management became to costly. All together, LIU currently has two main campuses, in Brooklyn and Brookville, and four branch campuses, located in Brentwood and Riverhead, as well as Rockland and Westchester counties.

The Brooklyn campus was established in 1926, and includes the former Brooklyn Paramount Theater, which is the world’s first theater, built specifically for talking pictures, as well as LIU’s only professional school and one of the largest and oldest pharmacy schools in USA.

The athletic teams from LIU’s Brooklyn campus are known as the Blackbirds, who compete in NCAA Division I, while the athletic teams from the C.W. Post campus are known as the Pioneers, who compete in NCAA Division II. The most successful athletic team from both campuses has been the Blackbirds basketball team, who won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1939 and 1941, under the guidance of Coach Clair Bee. Perhaps the most attention was brought upon the Blackbirds basketball team, when it was suspended for six years from 1951-1957, for the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, when 5 players received a suspended sentence and one player got a one-year prison sentence.

Among the most resonant names, on the list of LIU’s notable alumni, there are: Ben Knight - inventor, designer, artist, typographic co-ordinator at the United Nations, Ray Dalio - founder of Bridgewater Associates, John Kanas - former CEO and president of North Fork Bank, Gary Winnick - founder of Global Crossing, Ltd., installing the first undersea cable linking the U.S. and Europe, Morrell Avram - reputed nephrologist and among the first in the U.S. to use the artificial kidney to treat patients with kidney failure, and Louis Lemberger - one of the developers of the antidepressant drug Prozac, among others.