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The federal government's tax credit for higher education expenses should be made fully refundable and deposited into college savings accounts for Americans from low- and middle-income backgrounds when the students are in middle school, the New America Foundation argued in a report Tuesday. The report, "Enhancing Tax Credits to Encourage Saving for Higher Education," says that that change and others are necessary to make the federal college tax credits beneficial for students from less-wealthy backgrounds.

Arizona State University is considering a plan that would end state support for its law school, but allow the law school to be free of much state regulation, including that related to tuition rates, The Arizona Republic reported. The move follows a similar plan being considered for the business school of the University of California at Los Angeles.

• Steven Berenson, associate professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, has been promoted to full professor there.
• Kerri Briggs, state superintendent for education for Washington, D.C., has been named program director of education reform at the George W. Bush Institute.
• Dave Marcus, former education reporter at Newsday, has been chosen as director of media and public relations at New York Institute of Technology.
• Michael Sanseviro, interim dean of student success at Kennesaw State University, has been selected for the job on a permanent basis.
• Susan Sutton, associate vice president of international programs for the Indiana University System and associate vice chancellor at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, has been appointed senior adviser for international initiatives at Bryn Mawr College.

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