There is no point in listing most college stations and sbsolutely no point in tracking schedules. They fall into two main groups – stations that are part of an educational experience where you learn how college professors with no experience think a radio station works, or the station is run by a social group – the “radio club”
Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago is an excellent example of why these have rapidly been going away.
The Civility and Decorum Police at NEIU, and the Continuing Shutdown of WZRD
WZRD-FM has been off the air for 6 months. While the FCC gives school permission to not broadcast when school is not in regular session, the FCC regularly issues fines against college stations that break FCC rules.
So if you’re a college administrator facing budget issues and have costs associated with the station (FCC license costs, advisor, equipment maintenance, music royalties), when “trouble” breaks out, it gets really tempting to sell the license to a religious broadcaster or turn it over to the state NPR network to add to their repeater network.
These days, I can’t imagine too many students deciding which university to attend based in the school having a student run radio station
Hofstra University on Long Island is probably the place to go for someone wanting a serious education experience, but their radio station is a lot more than unsupervised students playing their favorite heavy metal music.
http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/SOC/WRHU/index.html
It’s slightly embarassing when a National Hockey League team has to use a college station as its radio outlet but it’s a real tribute to the Hofstra operation.
College radio is a fascinating subject. I live near one of the few commercial non-profit college stations. WPRB 103.3 Princeton from Princeton. It is run very professionally with commercials of local businesses – just enough commercials to help pay expenses while maintaining its non-profit status. For decades, they have had classical music in the mornings and alternative rock other times (except for the time to coverage Princeton University sports)
Indie 103.1 in Santa Monica was very similar- a commercial non-profit alternative station, but not affiliated with any university. About 5 years ago (from memory) they realized that most of their listeners were listeners on the internet from places far removed from Santa Monica. That led them to an interesting business decision on how to operate the station – they sold their transmitter and license – their biggest recurring cost and asset respectively, and not stream on the internet only with no transmitter.