Providing SCM to universities is a great idea. My university's CS program didn't once expose us to source control, which I think was a mistake. Going through four years of not using source control produced some bad habits which took a little while to rectify (my source control consisted of occasionally doing "tar czf backup-timestamp.tar.gz project" occasionally)

Our UPE chapter (CS honor society) tried setting up a SVN system, but it never really got off the ground.