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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Enjoy stress-free accreditation prep with Watermark
Accreditation isn’t just about demonstrating compliance—it’s about proving institutional impact. Watermark brings together your assessment, planning, and faculty credential data, turning fragmented information into actionable evidence of progress throughout your reporting and review cycles.
Demonstrate your progress with ease. Get a toolset that keeps both your accreditor’s expectations and your everyday needs top of mind.
Data that’s ready when you are
Getting the data you need for accreditation review has never been easier. Through our Educational Impact Suite (EIS), your assessment and programmatic data can be effortlessly gathered and synthesized into actionable insights and reports. Collaboratively reflect on findings and develop action plans for continuous improvement. Feel more empowered in your decision-making, and get more support as you drive institutional effectiveness across your school.
- Achieve consistent data readiness.
- Engage your entire institution in continuous improvement.
- Produce and centralize evidence efficiently.
- Write self-study reports quickly and easily.
Here to support your accreditation journey
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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What do our clients have to say?
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. –
On-demand demo: Simplifying accreditation with integrated solutions
Accreditation doesn’t have to be a last-minute rush that pulls your team away from strategic work. It can, and should, be a seamless, sustainable process that fuels your institution’s continuous improvement goals.
Watch this overview of Planning & Self-Study, Course Evaluations & Surveys, and Faculty Success to see Discover the difference a unified platform makes.
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