What sets Faculty Success apart?
Choosing the right faculty information system can make or break your institution’s efficiency. Our comparison grid helps you compare Watermark Faculty Success to similar solutions. Explore the grid to learn how Faculty Success can help you support faculty growth, recognize achievement, reduce administrative burden, boost reputation, and modernize the faculty lifecycle management experience.
“The most helpful aspect of Watermark Faculty Success is that it gives the power to faculty members. [They] are able to showcase all of their accomplishments in one space. The input of this information can be used by countless processes on campus including for applying for sponsored projects, promotion and tenure, and other evaluative processes.”
— Laura G., Public 4-year institution with over 11,000 enrollment FTE
| Feature | Watermark Faculty Success | Interfolio |
| Faculty experience | Faculty-focused interface, refreshed to directly address faculty feedback, save time, and reduce burden. Create CVs in a few easy clicks | Often clunky, outdated, and complex. Confusing navigation and slow load times; CV builder is buggy with poor formatting |
| Activity entry | AI-powered to save time and effort | Review-based imports that can’t be easily repurposed; manual maintenance of ongoing activities |
| Scalable tools | Reusable templates, bulk scheduling and assignment tools, and reusable review forms make handling departmental nuances automatic | Functions don’t scale, forcing users to manually create individual cases for each faculty member and update large numbers of “templates” to make changes |
| Module integration | Integrated modules for activity tracking, faculty reviews, and web profiles seamlessly share faculty details to ensure consistency | Disconnected modules require manual setup of workflows and duplicate data entry |
| Customization | Highly flexible to meet institutional and discipline-specific needs simultaneously; customize reports to produce the precise outputs you need | Limited, inflexible; no custom reports, requiring manual data compilation from multiple sources |
| Accreditation reporting | Fields and reports designed specifically to meet institutional and programmatic accreditor standards | Insufficient support for accreditation reporting; manual compilation for data required |
| Lifecycle management | Career path clarity for faculty and administrators; visual timelines of milestones, requirements, and progress | No faculty visibility into career paths or progress; administrator-focused only |
| Student voices | Directly integrates with Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys to include results in faculty reporting and reviews automatically | Reliant on imports, not integrations |
| Customer service | Accurate assistance in under 4 hours by chat, email, and phone | Slow and lacking IT support |
| Innovation | Continuously innovates, including client ideas, to add value and reduce burden for faculty and administrators | Significant gaps between promises and delivered enhancements |
