[BliliBoopsy]

Well, sounds like you have the go-ahead. The best thing to do is to get together with other kenshi and just start practicing if you can. The problem you'll run into is other people will want to join (or the university will force you to let them) - now who will teach the newbies? Certainly some clubs have shodan or nidan-level instructors or even ikkyu instructors/coaches, and the best thing to do is maintain close ties to a home dojo like the one you described.

But I think you'd wanna avoid being in a teaching role until shodan or higher, eh? The other thing you could do is get the club to go to WVU once a month and make sure the noobs get instruction there, using your college dojo as a practice space until they can return to WVU for further instruction.

Sounds like you have a good game plan in re: recruiting other Japanese players. May I suggest you also get involved with the Japanese student association?