miniDV decks for recording in a studio control room?

Hi guys,
My university has a television studio w/ old analog gear that I'm looking to replace this summer. We don't have the money to totally replace everything. For recording masters, I have an older Panasonic DVCPRO deck I'm thinking of putting in there to replace an old SVHS record deck. My problem is that although the DVCPRO deck would work great for me (I have another DVCPRO source deck in my edit bay), our students tend to shoot everything on MiniDV (as do tons of folks these days.)
Whatever I do, I'd like for our students to be able to come in, record multi-cam shows to miniDV so if they want to go back to their FCP edit bays and edit, they can. A MiniDV source deck would also help them if they edit some short segments together for including in a live studio taping.
I've been looking at JVC's BR-DV3000U(B)deck as an option (since it's in our price range) but in doing some research, I see that it's really not designed to work w/ edit controllers. I have RS-422 and RS-232 edit controllers that I could use w/ them.
Any suggestions on a deck that would work for me?
It seems that tons of folks are using the MiniDV format but there are very little options for those needing editing/record decks.
Obviously, I could use my DVCPRO deck w/ the miniDV adapter w/ RS-422 as a source deck but I can't use it as a record deck using the miniDV adapter.
I'd like to have the ability to use an edit controller in there but I bet these JVC decks would only be good as players and recorders being operated manually, eh?

My studio control setup consists of:
Panasonic switcher
Videonics CG
Mackie audio mixer
Sony preview monitors
Sony program monitor
3 Panasonic CCUs
Panasonic SVHS record deck
Panasonic SVHS source deck
Panasonic edit controller
CD player

Any advice? It seems that JVC is the only company that makes MiniDV players and recorders even though various manufacturers make miniDV cameras.