Robert C. Helmer is an American academic who became the ninth president of Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, on July 1, 2012.
Helmer has served as president and faculty member at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio, from 2003 to 2012.
Helmer started at Lourdes in 1996 as a faculty member and was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2001.
[2][3][4][5] Helmer has served as a member of the board of trustees of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Sylvania Chamber of Commerce, Flower Hospital, United Way of Greater Toledo, the Toledo Symphony, and Imagination Station.
[2][3][6] He and his wife, Linda, have two daughters, Clare and Abbie, and live in the President’s House on the Baldwin Wallace University campus with their dogs.