The new University of California-Merced campus is struggling to enroll students. So is the new Georgia Gwinnett College, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Story here.

Perhaps the school will fill up with students next year or the year after, but this looks like another typical instance where government officials — spending other people’s money of course — don’t check to see if their rosy assumptions are valid.

The decision against taking over North Carolina Wesleyan and making it part of the UNC system looks pretty good.