Bob Murphy Access Center
Location: Shakarian Student Success Center (SSSC) Room 110
Phone: (562) 985-5401
Fax: (562) 985-7183
E-mail: bmac@csulb.edu
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fall & Spring Semester Testing Hours:
Monday through Thursday, 8am - 6:45pm
Friday, 8 am - 4:45 pm
BMAC Drop-in Support
- January 16th - February 14th, 2025
- 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Topic: Spring 2025 BMAC SS Drop-in Support
- Join Zoom Meeting:
- Meeting ID: 881 7810 7242
- Passcode: BMACss
The Bob Murphy Access Center (BMAC) at CSU Long Beach’s mission is to assist over 2,700 students with disabilities at CSU Long Beach to achieve their educational degrees and prepare them to be career-ready after graduation. Since our beginning in 1973, BMAC has supported over 14,400 students in graduating from CSU Long Beach.
BMAC promotes diversity, equitable access, inclusion, and a sense of belonging to students. Through campus education, accommodations, and outreach, BMAC guides students with disabilities to develop independence and self-advocacy skills within the living, learning, and vocational environments.
BMAC supports a universally accessible campus that provides an equitable education free of academic, social, and environmental barriers. BMAC is dedicated to the continued advancement of disability awareness and services by incorporating innovative technology and principles of Universal Design, evolving practices, while utilizing a human-centered approach. Serving as disability advocates, BMAC embraces diversity, equity, inclusion, and access to the campus community.
| Program Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Accessible Technology Program | Provides alternative formats and assistive technology accommodations and support for BMAC students. Also provides remediation services and accessibility training for campus partners. Facilitates captioning services for faculty. |
| Autism Services/LIFE Project | Life Independence for Empowerment Project. For students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)(including Asperger Syndrome). Provides weekly workshops, presentations, and community-building activities to practice the skills necessary to navigate university life and future career opportunities |
| Mental Health Case Management | Provides students with disability-related information about services and resources. Assists students with crisis and immediate needs such as shelter, food, legal, and financial resources |
| Deaf/Hard of Hearing Support Services | For deaf and hard of hearing students. Provides Sign Language interpreters, CART writers, note-taking, parking permit for priority parking spaces, priority registration, and disability management. |
| Lois Shakarian Educational Support Services | Provides campus, classroom, and alternative testing accommodations for BMAC-registered students with disabilities |
| Stephen Benson Learning Disability Program | Serves the needs of É«ÖÐÉ« students who have a diagnosed learning disability. |
| Special Admissions | Facilitates application review on a case-by-case basis for applicants who may not meet the É«ÖÐÉ« (É«ÖÐÉ«) admission requirements due to a disability but are otherwise qualified. This process involves consulting with Enrollment Services and providing additional information about the applicants’ special circumstances. Each applicant is reviewed individually. |
| Title IX: Pregnant & Parenting Students | Provides accommodations for pregnant & parenting students. |
| Workability IV (WAIV) & Career Services | A career preparation and job placement assistance program for students and recent alumni with disabilities at California State University, Long Beach. |
