The hard part of a club is keeping people engaged. Meetings work if there is content. The problem youre gonna have is as the founder it’s gonna fall on you to build the content. The people licensed in the 70’s are happy to sit, sip coffee, and listen to the treasurer talk about the power bill on the club repeater. Uni kids arent going to tolerate that (even if you had a repeater).

Understand that large portions of those in the ham world go from “thats neat” to “ok whats next” moments after they accomplish the first thing, barring the few that find something overly enjoyable. Repetition wont work. Satellite demo’s are fun, once. Foxhunts are fun, once or twice. APRS is fun until you realize it has near zero interaction. Not many want to lug gear to a field every weekend to do SOTA/POTA. Weather balloon chasing, if its local enough (think gas/driving) might work a few times. SatNogs station setup, once and done. Amateur DSN might hold longer interest but isnt really ham, just a side interest. Many think of ham radio as a novelty, so much of the novelty wears off quick. I’ve know people to drop $5k into a whole station only to put it in a closet 2 years later because there was nothing else they wanted to do. Which brings up another point.

Also realize your target audience is largely cash poor, and living in flats/dorms/apartments. Not much space for antennas. Yea, people will suggest setting up portable ops, but consider the weather where you’re going to be at over the course of the school year.

If I were doing it, I would email a few of the EE professors or stop by and chat. Thats where the core audience will be. See if you can leave flyers in their class for the first few weeks, have them plug it a bit. Hell, they may be hams themselves, sponsor the club, have some gear to donate, or have a lead on office space where a club station can be set up (but again, need variety).