WATERMARK FACULTY SUCCESS

First, Watermark Faculty Success eliminates the need to frequently ask you for details about your teaching, research and service accomplishments in order to prepare numerous reports required by accrediting agencies, the news media and various university offices. University administrators (e.g. Chairs, Program Directors, Deans, etc) will be able to use Faculty Success to produce many of these reports.

Second, Faculty Success allows you to easily manage information about your performance and with a simple click of your mouse to produce the following reports:

• Faculty Evaluation
• Rank and Tenure Application
• Vita

You can produce these reports as Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF or HTML documents.

The bottom line for everyone involved is Faculty Success will save time by reducing the burden of paperwork associated with reporting.

Watermark Faculty Success completes the Faculty Evaluation and the Vita. However, Faculty Success cannot be used to complete these items in the R&T Application:

• Section A Cover page (which is now completed in Workflow)
• Section B Table of Contents
• Item 1 in Section D Teaching
• Item 3 in Section D. Teaching
• Item 6 in Section D. Teaching
• Item 1 in Section E. Scholarship
• Item 5 in Section E. Scholarship
• Sections G through M

Also, notations are required for each scholarly work, such as “VU,” “Dis,” “Last,” “Invited by Editor,” and an explanation of the scholarly work's significance by referencing the journal's quality, the journal's impact factor, citation data, etc. Until recently, we did not collect this information in Faculty Success, so the custom report may not have all of it.

Here is how you should proceed to use the R&T Application custom report. Once you have entered information in Faculty Success, run the Rank and Tenure Application custom report and open it in Word. You then can add the missing sections, complete the items remaining, and add the notations and additional explanations required by R&T Guidelines. You will convert this to PDF as part of your submission to the workflow system. We have a separate training on that.

All faculty members are required to use Watermark Faculty Success.  We strongly encourage you to enter your entire curriculum vitae (CV).

Because Faculty Success is easy to use, once your CV is created, you are expected to keep your information in Faculty Success current.

To save you time, we have uploaded information from Banner to complete 32 fields on four screens in Faculty Success.  Some of those fields are read-only, so if the information is incorrect, please email the correct information to Michael Risch. See a list of these 32 fields.

Be careful not to create duplicate records. Faculty members often create duplicate records for co-authored grants, presentations, publications, patents, etc. To prevent duplicate records, co-authors should agree on who will enter the information for all authors.

There are six administrative roles we will use to manage information in Watermark Faculty Success:

• University Administrator (or Watermark Administrator)
• University (leaders)
• University Limited Administrators
• College (leaders)
• College Limited Administrators
• Department Chairs/Center Directors/Program Directors

The administrative role will determine what each person can do, including the scope of report running and new user creation.

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