In 2017, Elon University’s School of Communications dedicated new facilities, providing students with a learning-centered environment and the latest technological resources on par with professional communications settings.

The school’s quad brings together 1,400-plus students and more than 80 faculty and staff in four adjoining buildings creating a 105,000-square-foot learning laboratory. The new and renovated facilities were made possible through the gifts of more than 40 families.

Dwight C. Schar Hall

A two-story centerpiece for the new communications campus

  • Turner Theatre – A 220-seat movie theater with a Christie Digital Cinema projection system and surround sound
  • Kanarick Media Sandbox – A collaborative space promoting student innovation
  • Student engagement suites, flexible classrooms, faculty offices
  • Headquarters of Live Oak Communications, a student-run strategic communications agency
Photo of Dwight C. Schar Hall exterior.
Photo of Turner Theatre interior.
Photo of Turner Theatre interior.
Students in Schar Hall classroom.
Students in Schar Hall classroom.
Students and other members of the campus community including Brooke Barnett, Jon Dooley and Hal Vincent, a lecturer in communications and faculty director of Live Oak Communications, meet in the new Live Oak Communications office, situated on the first floor of Schar Hall.

Snow Family Grand Atrium

A 5,000-square-foot, two-story glass community space that includes a 1.3-million-pixel video screen

Students gather in Snow Family Grand Atrium, part of the redesigned School of Communications facilities.

Steers Pavilion

Located across from Whitley Auditorium, the pavilion is a single-story structure that houses a Mac classroom laboratory, five office spaces, and a lounge area often used for university receptions and luncheons.

Steers Pavilion exterior photo - Spring 2017.
Steers Pavilion interior photo.

McEwen Communications Building

  • Jane and Brian Williams Studio – a versatile broadcast center with all-LED lighting, HD cameras, flexible sets and exterior windows opening onto Citrone Plaza, a streetscape in downtown Elon
  • Virtual Studio with a green hard-wall cyclorama for video compositing and a white infinity wall
  • Two HD-SDI control rooms with matching equipment, including a Ross Carbonite Black 2 ME video production switcher, a Ross Xpression motion graphics and video playback system and a Wheatstone 48-channel audio mixing console
  • Converged student newsroom – headquarters for the multiplatform Elon News Network
  • 19-room video editing suite networked to an Avid NEXIS server and linked to the studio control rooms
  • HD audio recording studio with three Pro Tools control rooms and two performance stages
  • New studios for WSOE/FM/Streaming radio with 24-hour automation and audio-over-IP
  • Student Internship and Career Center
Exterior view of Citrone Plaza.
Control room photo.
Students use the virtual studio.
Students film in the new studio spaces inside McEwen building, in the School of Communications.
Students film in the new studio spaces inside McEwen building, in the School of Communications.
Student newsroom photo.

Long Building

  • Home of the Master of Arts in Interactive Media program as well as the Sport Management Department
  • Flexible classrooms, faculty offices, student editing suites, Interactive Media student lounge
The Interactive Media logo in the entrance of Long Building.
The first-floor classroom in Long Building.
The first-floor classroom lab in Long Building.
The first-floor student lounge in Long Building.
The office pod for the Sport Management Department.