Physical therapy department plans expansion

The physical therapy department at Cal State Long Beach launched a fund-raising campaign to set up an assessment center and classroom April 27, during this weekend's annual campus festival, Kaleidoscope.

The new 2,880 square assessment center and classroom will occupy the currently vacant Technology Education Building 2.

Renovations of the facility including new flooring, a new ceiling, plumbing and other various equipment will cost $200,000.

While California did agree to fund the purchase of specialized equipment for the center, neither the state nor the university itself has allocated funds for the necessary remodeling.

Alumni from the physical therapy department have received letters which describe the new center as well as the department's current efforts to raise money.

Donors to the renovation funds will receive special recognition.

Those who donate $100 will get a personalized brick to be used in the courtyard. Those who wish to donate $200 to $900 earn their name on a wall plaque.

Contributors of $1,000 t0 $4,000 will have individual plaques while for $5,000 and above, one gets a plaque on a courtyard bench.

Those who donate $150,000 or more will have the clinic named after them.

The CSULB undergraduate physical therapy department was founded in 1967. There are currently more than 800 pre-physical therapy majors and approximately 120 students enrolled in the professional program.