We partner with over 440 HLC institutions to support key institutional processes and help them demonstrate how they meet HLC’s Criteria and Assumed Practices. With Watermark, it’s easy to assess teaching and learning, drive continuous improvement, deliver essential resources and support to students, and showcase your efforts through evidence for HLC assurance reviews and comprehensive evaluations.
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Make progress provable
Your institution is already doing the work: supporting students, improving programs, and putting policies into practice. Watermark helps you bring that work together into a clear, credible story of educational quality and progress.
Connect assessment findings, plans, faculty data, and student feedback to show what you did, what you learned, and how you’re improving. Make your evidence useful for accreditation and the decisions you make every day.
Turn scattered evidence into a clear story of progress
When evidence lives across departments, spreadsheets, and inboxes, it takes time to understand what it shows. Watermark helps your team organize assessment and planning evidence, reflect on findings together, and track the actions that follow. Give accreditors a clearer view of your work while helping your institution decide what to improve next.
- Connect the evidence. Bring assessment findings, plans, faculty activity, and student feedback into a more complete picture.
- Show policy in practice. Document how institutional commitments guide action and what changes as a result.
- Make outcomes meaningful. Use evidence of student learning alongside broader measures of student and institutional success to explain your progress.
- Spend less time sorting. Organize evidence for reporting so your team can focus on interpreting findings and making improvements.
Build your accreditation story with the evidence that matters
We partner with over 60% of The Commission (SACSCOC) institutions to support key institutional processes and help them demonstrate compliance with The Commission’s Principles of Accreditation. With Watermark, it’s easy to assess teaching and learning, drive continuous improvement, deliver essential resources and support to students, and showcase your quality enhancement efforts through evidence for your self-studies and QEP.
Learn moreWe partner with 45% of Middle States institutions to support key institutional processes and help them demonstrate compliance with the Commission’s Standards for Accreditation and Requirements of Affiliation. With Watermark, it’s easy to assess teaching and learning, drive continuous improvement, deliver essential resources and support to students, and showcase your quality enhancement efforts through evidence for your self-study.
Learn moreWe partner with over 40% of WSCUC institutions to help them demonstrate how they meet the Commission’s Standards of Accreditation. With Watermark, it’s easy to showcase assessment efforts, program review, faculty qualifications, course feedback, and other evidence of improved institutional effectiveness.
Learn moreWe partner with 56% of NWCCU institutions to help them demonstrate how they meet the criteria for accreditation. With Watermark, it’s easy to showcase assessment efforts, program review, faculty qualifications, course feedback, student support resources, and other evidence of improved institutional effectiveness.
Learn moreWe partner with over 40% of NECHE institutions to help them demonstrate how they meet the criteria for accreditation. With Watermark, it’s easy to showcase your efforts through evidence for compliance, evaluation of teaching and learning experiences, academic and support services for students, strategic planning, and institutional effectiveness.
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See how institutions make progress visible
Clean, impressive reporting
“The [Faculty Success] report for HLC accreditation listed the courses each faculty member had taught over the last five years, faculty transcripts, and the vitae. It was so clean the –
“The [Faculty Success] report for HLC accreditation listed the courses each faculty member had taught over the last five years, faculty transcripts, and the vitae. It was so clean the HLC asked us to present the system at their next conference.” –
From 80-hour weeks to getting it done in time
“I was working 80-hour weeks to complete our reaffirmation report, and Watermark made it possible for my teammates and I to get the work done during our 40-hour week.”
Reports take minutes, not weeks
“Reports that used to take weeks to pull, I can do in a few minutes. It gives me peace of mind and allows for efficient, data-driven decisions regarding institutional effectiveness.”
A historic record and planning tool all in one
Planning & Self-Study has assisted us in our fall 2027 [MSCHE] re-accreditation by taking everything we did from our March 2020 visit and look at it longitudinally, but also have –
Planning & Self-Study has assisted us in our fall 2027 [MSCHE] re-accreditation by taking everything we did from our March 2020 visit and look at it longitudinally, but also have everything historically that we need to move forward and to show, especially for the peer evaluator, consistent positive continuous improvement. It also helps everything to be in one place where if we have people looking at certain criteria, they know where to grab evidence. –
See connected accreditation evidence in action
Watch this on-demand demo of Planning & Self-Study, Course Evaluations & Surveys, and Faculty Success. See how Watermark supports accreditation work with planning, student feedback, and faculty evidence that helps your team tell a more complete story.
Keep progress moving
Make evidence useful every day
Explore practical ideas for building a culture of assessment and keeping accreditation evidence ready throughout the year.
Ready to make your progress provable?
Tell us about your accreditation priorities. We’ll help you explore how Watermark can bring your evidence together and make your institution’s progress easier to show.