Faculty activity reporting & success software
Capture faculty information once and use it infinitely.
Learn about Watermark Faculty Success
Grow, retain, and promote faculty with a solution trusted by 400+ institutions. From credentialing and accreditation to annual reviews and career growth, Faculty Success centralizes data, reporting, and workflows in one easy-to-use platform.
Our clients are driving real impact with Faculty Success
institutions supported
faculty accomplishments captured
faster faculty review cycles
accreditation reports run annually
How it helps
Centralize faculty reviews with secure, repeatable workflows that enforce policy and eliminate administrative bottlenecks.
- Configure custom workflows – from simple annual reviews to complex tenure cases – tailored to your specific campus policies.
- Manage complexity effortlessly by handling committees, external reviewers, and discipline-specific needs in one unified tool.
- Minimize errors with automatically enforced access settings and routing rules.
- Standardize dossiers to ensure consistent presentation, allowing reviewers to focus on substance over structure.
- Drive momentum with automated reminders and alerts that keep participants on track with deadlines.
- Monitor real-time progress to instantly identify bottlenecks and ensure no faculty file is overlooked.
- Launch recurring cycles quickly by cloning past schedules and simply updating the dates.
Move from scattered documents and fragmented systems to a structured digital hub where you can run consistent annual activity reports and P&T dossiers that instantly fuel faculty reviews.
- Centralize activity data fast with opt-in AI features*, automations, and integrations. Transition from other activity reporting systems easily with batch imports and help from our experienced Watermark team.
- Give support staff access to help faculty manage their data.
- Simplify tasks with a new, focused user interface.
- Start every faculty review cycle with the right activity reports – preformatted, prepopulated and automatically attached.
* Coming soon!
Use course evaluations and surveys to provide a 360 view.
Help faculty improve instruction through real-time student insights. Then seamlessly integrate student feedback as evidence of teaching effectiveness for holistic faculty reviews. Learn more
Provide a transparent, user-friendly experience for all participants throughout the evaluation process.
- Load review materials fast – no more waiting for hours for evidence to load or pages to refresh.
- Enable secure, bidirectional movement for reviewers to easily advance materials or return them with notes when more documentation is required.
- Use secure digital forms to collect peer evaluations, external review letters, and committee feedback in a centralized, auditable format.
- Maintain a permanent, accessible review history so faculty can reference past feedback and goals to foster long-term career growth.
Take a closer look at why users love Faculty Success
Centralize career tracks and timelines to give faculty clearer guidance, boost support and confidence, and help them advance.
- Provide faculty with a clear, personalized career map showing progress, milestones, and requirements.
- Facilitate impactful development discussions on readiness for the next career step.
- Track faculty career progression in aggregate for strategic resource and personnel planning.
Instantly generate public web profiles, dynamic CVs, and biosketches to promote faculty expertise and achievements.
- Help prospective students find mentors.
- Fuel funding, speaking, and collaboration opportunities.
- Attract donors and improve rankings by showcasing research and community impact.
- Link community and industry partners with subject matter experts.
- Improve faculty morale and retention by recognizing achievements.
- Review faculty workloads to ensure fairness, prevent burnout, and protect faculty morale.
- Generate reports that help you track against requirements, forecast needs, and address workload within the annual review cycle.
- Use these insights for strategic resource planning and to facilitate meaningful reflections on productivity during development discussions.
Ready to talk about how Faculty Success can help your institution?
Organize faculty credentials in a dedicated space. Link degrees, licenses, work history and other qualifications directly to specific courses to prove how your faculty are qualified to teach.
Use ready-to-run templates for major accreditors like SACSCOC and AACSB to pull data into the exact required formats, automatically.
- Generate faculty credentialing, scholarship, development summary reports, and CVs for all the major institutional and programmatic accreditors.
- Fulfill public syllabi and CV mandates with standardized, automated faculty web profiles.
Built for your institution’s key stakeholders
From provosts to individual faculty, our platform provides the targeted tools and centralized data needed to foster excellence, streamline reviews, and accelerate career growth.
Provosts and Chief Academic Officers
Attract and retain top faculty with tools for success. Centralized data saves time for all, informs strategic decisions, and demonstrates effectiveness to drive career development.
Academic and Faculty Leaders
Promote faculty success and growth with integrated data that guides development. Ensure fair, efficient reviews while saving time with instant visibility and one-click activity reports.
Faculty
Get credit for your impact. Save time on reporting and reviews while easily showcasing contributions. Gain the clarity and tools needed to confidently advance your career.
FAQs
Faculty Success software (often called Faculty Activity Reporting or FAR systems) is an academic management tool used by colleges and universities to track, manage, and report on faculty work. It’s a centralized system where professors log everything they do professionally—so the institution can evaluate performance, generate reports, and streamline administrative processes.
Faculty Success software captures things like:
- Teaching & mentoring: Courses taught, academic advising, directed student learning (theses/dissertations), mentoring, non-credit instruction, teaching innovation/curriculum development, and evidence of qualifications to teach.
- Scholarship & research: Publications (journal articles, books, book chapters), presentations, grants and sponsored research, creative works (exhibits and performances), intellectual property (patents/copyrights), and pre-deliverable research activities.
- Service: Contributions to the university, professional service (editorial boards, leadership), and public or community service.
- General information & background: Education, work history, awards and honors, licensures and certifications, media appearances, consulting, and professional memberships, expertise.
- Administrative data: Yearly appointment data, tenure timelines, administrative assignments, and workload distribution.
Faculty Success integrates with your existing campus ecosystem and external scholarship databases to automate data entry, ensure accuracy, and eliminate redundancy across your institution.
- Institutional systems (ERP, HCM, SIS & Grants): Seamlessly sync appointments, credentials, course assignments, and grant data. Key integrations include Ellucian®, Oracle®, Workday®, Cayuse™, and Kuali™ via API or bulk import
- Scholarship & publication databases: Pull research and publications directly from sources like ORCiD™, Scopus®, Web of Science®, PubMed, Crossref, and Google Scholar™. It also supports imports from EndNote®, Zotero™, and Mendeley® with built-in duplicate detection.
- Course Evaluations & Surveys: While it features a native, seamless connection to Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys, the platform is flexible. You can also bring in student feedback and instructional insights from other course evaluation systems using API integrations or bulk imports to ensure a holistic view of faculty performance.
By connecting these platforms, Faculty Success creates a centralized “single source of truth,” saving significant time for faculty, staff, and administrators.
Yes, you can easily import CVs into Watermark Faculty Success using several high-speed options. The system features AI-powered imports* that parse documents into your institution’s specific data structure in seconds, saving 90% of manual entry time. Other options include mapping-based tools and direct integrations with databases like ORCiD and Scopus.
* Coming soon.
Watermark Faculty Success offers a range of report templates to help faculty and administrators reuse data for various professional and institutional needs, including:
- CVs and Biographical Sketches
- Annual activity reports
- Promotion & tenure documents like dossiers
- Accreditation reports on credentials, development activities, scholarship and impact
- Summary reports on any type of activity captured, like intellectual contributions, service, teaching, expertise
- Faculty/staff directories
- Workload reports
- Web profiles
- Ad hoc raw data reports
Faculty Success streamlines faculty management by centralizing accomplishments for faculty evaluation, promotion, tenure, and reporting. Unlike other tools, it reduces administrative burden while empowering faculty to showcase their achievements in one place.
See how we compare.Yes, but it has evolved significantly. Formerly known as Digital Measures, Watermark Faculty Success has transitioned from a reporting tool into a comprehensive faculty management system. While it still handles activity reporting, it now supports a fuller faculty lifecycle – integrating review processes, career tracking, an improved UX, and AI-powered data entry to eliminate manual tasks.
Expert support from day one
Our client experience team partners with you from implementation to ongoing success. We’re experts at helping you transition from your previous system and focus on quick setup, proven best practices, and guidance to maximize value year-round.
Learn more about Watermark’s award-winning support.
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