McElroy Communication Arts Center
The McElroy Communication Arts Center opened in 1992 and houses a student-run television studio and Wartburg's FM radio station 89.1 KWAR with stereo broadcasting equipment and a television production suite with camera, editing, and graphics systems. Students use both analog and digital editing equipment. Offices for student publications also are located in the facility.

State-of-the-art computer work stations in the journalism and graphic labs shared with the adjacent art department include such peripherals as film and flatbed scanners, color and black-and-white printers, graphics tablets, digital still and video cameras, and various types of media readers/writers. Students learn computer software packages used by graphic artists in painting, photography, multimedia, typography, layout, and illustration. Applications available include recent versions of Photoshop, Freehand, Quark, Painter, Flash, and Director.