Bob Shoemake serves as the Director of the Selim Center for Lifelong Learning at the University of St. Thomas. Now in its 51st year, the Selim Center engages adult learners in high quality educational opportunities that promote growth in body, mind and spirit.

Bob has been involved with the education of adult learners for almost his entire career, working in business, academia and the non-profit sector. At the Center for Ethical Business Cultures (CEBC) in the St. Thomas' Opus College of Business, he developed programming in leadership and values for mid-level and senior business leaders. He has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of St. Thomas, where he taught business ethics to undergraduate and MBA students in its Opus College of Business and theology to undergraduates in its College of Arts and Sciences.

Bob received a Master of Divinity from Emory University's Candler School of Theology and a Bachelor of Music Education in voice and choral conducting from the University of South Carolina. He has completed further graduate study at institutions in South Carolina and Minnesota.

Born in Florida and reared in South Carolina, Bob has lived in Minnesota for 42 winters. He enjoys music of many kinds, particularly choral singing. He recharges his batteries by cooking and loves to share food, wine and good conversation with old and new friends.