Contact Information

N471 Lindquist Center

Educational Policy and Leadership Studies

College of Education

The University of Iowa

Iowa City IA 52242 USA

Internet/Email:lelia-helms@uiowa.edu
Telephone:  319/335-5370
Facsimile: 319/384-0587

Office hours: Posted each semester depending on class schedule

• B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
• M.A., Political Science, Tufts University
• Ph.D., Political Science, Tufts University
• J.D., The University of Iowa

• Higher Education Program

Professional Experience

Faculty:

• State University of New York, Brockport
• Northeastern University
• University of Maryland
• The University of Iowa

Other:

• Administration – The University of Iowa
• Program Officer – U.S. Department of Education
• Attorney – Legal Services Corporation

Professional Activities and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Iowa State Bar Association
• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

• The relationship between law & policy in both the areas of K-12 and of higher education.
• Within this general area I have looked at the fields of medical education and nursing in particular.

• Helms, L., Henkin, A., & Murray, K. (2005). Playing by the rules: Restricted endowment assets in colleges and universities. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 15(3): 341-356
• Anderson , M.S., Helms, L., Foreman, M., & Clark, M. (2005). Hospital readmission from home health care before and after prospective payment. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 37(1): 73-79.
• Helms, L. (2004). Recent developments in public education: Postsecondary education, 2003-2004. The Urban Lawyer, 36(4): 867-887.
• Helms, L., Pierson, C., & Streeter, K. (2003). The risks of litigation: A case study of resident assistants. West’s Education Law Reporter, 180(1): 25-38.
• Elkins, B., Helms, L.B., & Pierson, C. (2003). Greek letter organizations, alcohol & courts: A risky business. Journal of College Student Development, 44(1): 67-80.
• Murray , K., & Helms, L. (2001). The bucks stop here: Graduate level disability services and the 1998 Rehabilitation Act Amendments. Journal of College and University Law, 27(3): 1-39.
• Pierson, C., & Helms, L. (2000). Liquor and litigation: Forty years of litigation over alcohol on campus. West’s Education Law Reporter, 142(2): 609-623.

I am completing a major new textbook on public policymaking, titled American Public Policymaking: Getting Results, to be published by AB Longman. This text is designed as a new approach to the field of public policymaking and offers beginning students several analytic tools for mapping and comparing the development and implementation of policies across the many specialized areas of policy studies (education, health, transportation, agriculture, defense, environment, social welfare, etc.)

• 07B:118 The Law of Student Services
• 07B:218 The Law of Higher Education
• 07B:225 American Public Policymaking
• 07B:316 Policy Design and Implementation