Elon University is doubling the size of its communications school. The university announced Friday that it would add two buildings and renovate two others on its Alamance County campus.
Elon is in the midst of a major fundraising campaign for the $15 million project. Plans include a new two-story building that will contain a media innovation lab, classrooms, faculty offices and a 250-seat theater.
A second building, a 4,800-square-foot pavilion, will sit between the new communications building and the nearby Long Building. That pavilion will be the home of Elon's Imagining the Internet Center.
The News And Record Of Greensboro reports the new buildings will create the quad that surrounds Under the Oaks, the historic grove of trees on Elon's campus where commencement is held.
President Leo Lambert said that Elon has raised more than $8 million toward its goal.
Among the donors are NBC News anchor Brian Williams and his wife, Jane. Brian Williams was Elon's commencement speaker at his son's graduation in 2013. Williams also is national chairman of the communications school's advisory board.
The university hopes to wrap up its fundraising campaign by the end of 2015 and start construction in early 2016.
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