Watermark Faculty Success

On this page:

• Submissions
• About Watermark Faculty Success
• Expectations
• Training
• Resources
• Communications
   

Submissions

Steps to access submission windows:

1. Login to the Faculty Success system
2. Select Workflow in the black banner bar
3. If applicable, available submission windows will appear in your Inbox section. Select the hyperlinked review title to access your submission.
4. Select “Refresh All” to update the auto populated report from the Activities area of Faculty Success
5. There is typically a report automatically attached to submission windows. To preview your information, select the red Adobe icon—your report will open in a new window and you can view your content there.
   1. If changes are needed, update your content within the Activities section of the system.
   2. To bring in the changes you made in (5.1), select the blue “Refresh” icon within your submission window—this will update your information to reflect the most current data you’ve entered within the linked report.
6. Answer supplemental questions within the submission window. Some are not required (as noted by a red asterisk), if unrequired questions do not apply to you, skip them.
7. When ready, select “Actions” in the upper right-hand corner and “Submit to (whatever the next level is”.
   1. If you are not ready, select “Save Draft” and return to the submission window when you are ready.

Note: If content within the generated report does not extend far back enough in time for your review, run a Rapid Report (selecting Faculty Activity Report – Annual Review for Annual Reviews) and update the start/end dates to pull information in as far back as necessary. Then, attach that generated report to the Additional Attachments section within your submission window.

If you submit your materials and a change is needed, follow the steps below:

1. Login to the Faculty Success system
2. Select Workflow in the black banner bar
3. Your submission history is displayed within the “History” section. Select the specific submission you need to edit.
4. Select “Actions” in the upper right-hand corner and select “Recall”. This will move the submission window back to your inbox and you can edit your information and resubmit.
    

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About Watermark Faculty Success

Watermark Faculty Success is a tool for faculty to collect, manage and report their teaching, research and service activities, along with their accomplishments and professional activities. Benefits include:

• Eliminates inconsistencies in reports and reduces requests for faculty to provide information related to their scholarship, research, creative activities, and teaching.
• Provides an efficient and useful tool to assist with annual reviews and allows faculty to create resumes, dossiers, and annual reports in various formats.
• Provides a single data source that can be used to quickly aggregate information and generate reports for professional and regional accreditations, sponsored programs, scholarly and creative activity, and other internal and external reporting purposes.
   

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Expectations

• All faculty will have access to the system.
• Faculty that submit their information for annual reviews through the Faculty Success, once their data is entered, or utilize the past Faculty Activity Report previously used by the colleges. As of February 1, 2024, Faculty Success will be the only acceptable medium for submitting promotion and tenure documents and  senior lecturer promotion documents, and for reporting activity for annual evaluation.
• Faculty applying for promotion and/or tenure during the 2024-2025 academic year will submit their data and application through the Faculty Success system.
   

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Training

 

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Resources

• Faculty Activity Report (FAR) – Department Chair or Equivalent Rubric
  • Department Chair or Equivalent Rubric for Faculty Annual Reviews (PDF)

• Importing Publications from Google Scholar
  • Note: While it is possible to export a specific citation within your Google scholar search results to BibTeX, the intention is that one would first aggregate his or her citations via Google Scholar Citations prior to generating the BibTeX file for import into Faculty Success.
     
  • To export citations to a BibTeX file:
     
  1. Navigate to Google Scholar.
  2. You will see two options at the top left, My Profile and My Library. Select My Profile.
  3. If you are not yet logged in, enter your credentials to sign in. Upon signing in you should land on your profile page where you will see a list of your "articles."
  4. Click on the check box next to each article you would like to export, to select all articles simply click on the checkbox at the very top.
  5. Once you’ve made your selections select the Export option and choose BibTex as your file format. This will convert your articles into BibTeX format.
  6. Next, you’ll need to copy the BibTex text into a text editor (such as Notepad for PC or TextEdit for Mac) and save it as a .txt or .bib file.
      
  • For more information please see the Google Scholar help guide.
     
• Adding Research Interests to a Faculty Success Profile
  1. Upon logging in, select ‘Faculty Success’
  2. Select ‘Current Research Interests’ within the Research section
  3. Select ‘Add new’
  4. Enter content, as a brief statement about your research interests, within the Description box.
  5. Optional: If you are interested or open to working with students, answer the question and select which students you are willing to work with.
  6. Select ‘Save’.
     
     Adding Research Interests to a Faculty Success Profile instructions with screenshots (PDF)

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Communications

• November 3, 2023 - Faculty Success reporting system now available (PDF)
• November 21, 2023 - Update on using Faculty Success (PDF)