At the University of Pennsylvania, The Faculty Club charges annual dues for both individual, and departmental, membership accounts. The University Club at University of California, Irvine, has over 100 departmental memberships. Departments may also choose to have individual department cards issued. The UCI Club does allow functions to be booked by non-member departments, but does charge higher room rates and prices for these than the prices paid by members. At Queen s University in Kingston, Ontario, manager George Teves reported that Departmental accounts were set up to keep bills separate for members when conducting university business.
Departmental accounts have no other membership privileges as such.
Several other clubs reported various dues structures for department accounts, with most stressing the requirement for individual memberships, also. Of those clubs that do not offer group accounts, the impact on individual memberships was most often cited as the reason. Charles Earle, University Club of Nashville, speaks for many clubs when he says, We feel that it discourages people from getting their own memberships if they can just use one from the department. The George Washington University Club does not offer department accounts, but has a unique way of accommodating members needs for entertaining. Manager Tim Ramsey explains, Our facilities are in two restored pre-Civil War townhouses, so space is limited.