Chandler gift will support Elon’s new health and wellness center
Elon’s new Slattery Center will bring counseling, classrooms and fitness space to Innovation Quad, with a fall 2026 opening now in view.
A new three-story health and wellness hub at Elon University will soon bring counseling, classrooms, research space and fitness facilities together in one building on the Innovation Quad, giving students a single place to study, exercise and get support as the campus moves toward a fall 2026 opening.
The Slattery Center, which Elon has described as a 135,000-square-foot building, is designed to combine academics, campus recreation and wellness in a way the university says will help students build habits they can carry beyond college. It will house the Mark and Kim Tyson Counseling Center, along with new classrooms, student-faculty research spaces and multiple levels devoted to wellness and physical activity. Elon has said the center will be the second-largest building on campus behind Schar Center.
The Chandler family’s gift will help shape that project and also extend Elon’s athletics reach well beyond Alamance County. The Chandler Family Global Experience Fund will help provide each of Elon’s 17 varsity teams with a global experience every four years, reinforcing a long-standing expectation that student-athletes gain international exposure during their time at the university. Elon has said previous team trips have taken athletes to Greece, the Dominican Republic and Japan.
Bob Chandler, an Elon trustee and the founder of Burlington-based Chandler Concrete, said the facility matters because it gives students a place to be in community, exercise, receive counseling and focus on well-being. Chandler Concrete, founded in 1973, operates in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The Chandler family’s connection to Elon stretches back nearly 60 years, and Chandler has said the family’s ties to the university reach back even further, to his grandmother, who graduated in 1898.
The gift also fits into a broader fundraising push around Elon’s HealthEU initiative, which launched in fall 2022 and organizes wellness around six dimensions: community, emotional, financial, physical, purpose and social. Elon has said the HealthEU Center campaign carried a $25 million fundraising goal. A separate $3 million gift from Mark and Kim Tyson named the counseling services center inside the new building, and support from other donors, including the Hunt family, has helped move the project forward. For Alamance County, the result is a major new campus investment that will strengthen student services, add construction activity and deepen Elon’s role as one of the region’s most visible institutions.
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