Amber Anderson Skrabek joined the U of M in 2003, when the Faculty of Engineering was in the midst of its Building on Strengths Engineering and Information Technology Complex Capital Campaign. She knew she wanted to get involved on a personal level.

“One building had already been demolished and there was a big hole in the ground where it once stood,” says Anderson Skrabek, External Communications Specialist for the Faculty. “Students were trekking across the campus for classes, and faculty and staff members were doubled up in small offices.  The need was obvious.” Through payroll deduction she decided to contribute to the campaign.

“In my job I work closely with other donors, and am constantly exposed to the amazing activities of our alumni, faculty and students,” she says. “I believe what is happening in this building and on this campus has a long-standing impact in the world we live in.  I want to be a part of that.”

With state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, the Engineering and Information Technology Complex is, and will continue to be, a home to outstanding research and teaching in both the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science well into the future.

Anderson Skrabek continues to support the U of M through the Campus as a Community Campaign – a university-wide campaign to raise awareness among staff and faculty that the U of M is a philanthropic option. Faculty and staff have already committed more than $93,000 in the first two years of the three-year campaign.

“Working at the university has afforded me many opportunities I would not normally have had,” Anderson Skrabek says.  “I feel it is only appropriate to respond with giving that enables the university to continue to do what it does best… provide a top notch education to the best students in the province.”