Don’t compromise your institution’s unique review process for a lightweight shortcut.

At the heart of every Faculty Affairs team is a mandate to build trust with faculty and advance the student experience. Forcing your campus into a rigid, one-size-fits-all software model disrupts those critical relationships and creates unnecessary administrative friction.

Watermark Faculty Success honors your institution’s distinct traditions and policies, providing the flexible toolset and experienced partnership your faculty and leaders deserve.

See why 400+ institutions trust Watermark Faculty Success

The four pillars of a true Faculty Affairs partner

Eliminate repetitive faculty data entry
  • Put automation to work where it counts: Intelligent CV importing and data integrations mean faculty spend less time rebuilding their academic records.
  • Collect data once, use it everywhere: Information entered by faculty populates public web profiles, annual activity reports, and promotion and tenure dossiers automatically.
Actionable reporting for every institutional need
  • Put your data to work: Easily aggregate information across departments, colleges, or the entire institution without custom engineering.
  • Turnkey compliance: Out-of-the-box reporting engines mapped directly to regional and programmatic accreditor standards.
Respect for your institution’s unique processes
  • Configured to your rules: Your institution’s review structures, evaluation rubrics, and reporting formats are preserved—not overwritten.
  • Integrated ecosystem: Connects seamlessly with Course Evaluations & Surveys and the broader Watermark suite for holistic insights across the faculty lifecycle.
A proven track record you can trust
  • Guided implementation: Our dedicated services team works alongside your office to manage data migration, system configuration, and user onboarding.
  • Backed by experience: Trusted by over 400 institutions and 650,000+ faculty members—Watermark provides a secure foundation you can count on year after year.

Intelligent automation built on privacy and trust

We know AI in higher education can raise tough questions about data privacy, governance, and accuracy. At Watermark, we treat AI as a background tool built under strict ethical guardrails to eliminate tedious tasks, while keeping human judgment firmly at the center.

Explore our Ethical AI Framework

Easier data entry for faculty. Powerful, flexible reports for you.

What lightweight tools offer What Watermark delivers
Manual data entry burdens that frustrate
faculty and lead to incomplete activity records.		 Automated CV imports & smart data capture
that reduce administrative time so faculty can focus on
their work.
Rigid, one-size-fits-all review forms that
force your institution to change its established policies.		 Highly configurable workflows that mirror
your institution’s exact RPT, annual review, and
credentialing processes.
Basic queries that require administrators
to manually rebuild custom reports for accreditors.		 Turnkey institutional reporting using one
centralized data set across CVs, annual activity reports,
and accreditation packages.
Self-service setups that leave your team
stranded during complex data migration and rollout.		 Dedicated implementation & migration support
from higher ed experts who guide you every step of the way.

Don’t settle for an ad-hoc vendor when you can have an established partner

See Faculty Success in action .