VISION: Toward a More Peaceful and Humane
World
Long Island University
envisions a learning 
community
dedicated to empowering and transforming the lives of its students
to effect a more peaceful and humane world that respects differences
and cherishes cultural diversity; improving health and the overall
quality of life; advancing social justice and protecting human
rights; reducing poverty; celebrating creativity and artistic
expression; rewarding innovation and entrepreneurship; honoring
education and public service; and managing natural resources in
an environmentally-responsible, sustainable fashion. It aspires
to move toward this vision through an institutional culture that
is open to all, cherishing and nurturing the expansion of knowledge;
intellectual inquiry and critical thought; artistic and creative
expression; teaching and learning; and community service as its
core values. This vision sustains the University and provides
the foundation upon which its mission rests.
MISSION: Excellence and Access
The mission of Long
Island University is to provide excellence and access in
private higher education to people from all backgrounds who seek
to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful,
educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
THE UNIVERSITY
TODAY
One of the nation's
ten largest independent, private 
institutions
of higher learning, Long Island University is a highly-diverse,
non-sectarian, coeducational, multi-campus, regional university,
offering a comprehensive range of undergraduate, graduate and
professional degree programs, and doctoral study in several fields,
as well as credit and non-credit certificate programs. Chartered
as a single academic institution, led by a single president and
governing board, and guided by a single, integrated academic structure,
the University maintains an urban residential campus in Brooklyn
(Brooklyn Campus), a suburban residential campus in Brookville
(C.W. Post Campus) and a small town residential campus in Southampton
(Southampton College), as well as regional campuses serving commuter
students in the metropolitan New York/Long Island region in Brentwood
(Brentwood Campus), Orangeburg (Rockland Graduate Campus) and
Purchase (Westchester Graduate Campus). It also supports such
specialized programs as the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College
of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on the Brooklyn Campus, a University
School of Continuing Studies dedicated to offering lifelong learning
opportunities, the Friends World Program of global education for
social change and its academic centers around the world, and the
SEAmester Program with ships operating in both the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. The Board of Trustees, by providing policy leadership,
critical insights, essential resources and independent assessment,
oversees and supports the entire educational enterprise and is
responsible for holding the University accountable to its mission
in the public interest.
Embracing
many students whose life circumstances, economic means or previous
academic opportunities might otherwise make private, higher education
an impossible dream, the University provides an excellent academic,
artistic, and cultural learning environment, complemented by opportunities
for experiential education and lifelong learning. It offers its
students access to the American dream of personal success and
to the timeless and eternal goals of a liberal education.
Toward that end, the
University places its highest priority on inspiring and teaching
students to realize their full potential as whole human beings.
It seeks to prepare and empower its students to develop their
intellectual capacities; engage in critical thought and scientific
inquiry, especially with respect to the political and social aspects
of their communities and physical environments; expand and refine
their creative and artistic talents; acquire higher-level professional
skills and knowledge, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences;
and enjoy the benefits of the liberally-educated, self-reflective
and civically-responsible life. Dedicated to the advancement of
knowledge as well as its transmission across the generations,
the University encourages its faculty to engage in active programs
of research and academic service, to involve their students in
those activities wherever possible, and to enrich their teaching
and mentoring with the fruits of those endeavors. The University
is also committed to providing an environment that fosters active
campus life, academic and co curricular student services, personal
enrichment and community service opportunities, cultural and recreational
activities, and intercollegiate athletics - all designed to nurture
the development and health of the whole human being. The University
recognizes its responsibility to the community through numerous
public outreach activities, including a public radio network spanning
much of Long Island, a major regional center for the performing
arts, several museums and galleries, readings and public forums,
student performances, and non-credit programs for professional
development, lifelong learning and cultural enjoyment.
Long Island University
takes special pride in the rich diversity of its unique and distinctive
campuses. At the same time, its campuses and additional instructional
sites around the globe benefit from the transcending unity and
common purpose, shared identity and reputation, intellectual synergy
and major resources of a large private institution of higher learning
respected for the University's traditions of excellence and
access.
