LIU-Post Pioneers LINES, ODDS, PICKS AND REVIEWS

LIU Post (formerly, and still formally known as, the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University and often referred to as C.W. Post) is a private institution of higher education located in Brookville in Nassau County, New York, United States. It is the largest campus of the private Long Island University system. The campus is named after breakfast cereal inventor Charles William Post, father of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who sold the property (which had been her Long Island estate known as Hillwood) to LIU in 1951 for $200,000 ($1,823,333 today). Three years after it acquired the property, LIU renamed it in honor of Post`s father….