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Head basketball coach at Louisville, where program paid escorts to strip and perform sex acts for recruits, will be suspended for five games. The university says the punishment -- seen by some experts as a slap on the wrist -- is too harsh and intends to appeal.

To distress of advocates, Education Department tells civil rights investigators to focus on individual complaints -- and not automatically go beyond them -- in looking for history of discrimination at institutions.

But avoid legislation that would cap bachelor’s degree programs and create new oversight board.

A new executive order from the White House seeks to expand apprenticeships and open the door to a larger role for industry groups and alternative education providers.