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Since Fall 2023, Faculty Success by Watermark has been utilized by faculty to build their portfolios. Tenure track faculty, in their retention years, as well as those pursing Full Professor or Professional Advancement Increase are required to use Faculty Success.   Starting in Fall 2025 sabbatical applications and educational leave applications will completed in Faculty Success.  Lastly, in Spring 2026 Faculty Success will be used for ASP, ARP, instructor reviews plus post tenure annual reviews.

Faculty Success has two modules to streamline the process.

The first module is called Faculty Success Accomplishments, which will allow faculty to build their accomplishments continually without having to wait for a 'portfolio' or 'template' to be set up each year. Benefits of using this tool include:

• No more tables that have to be manually created
• Courses will be auto-populated by Faculty Success admins
• Course Evaluation Results (with those with seven or more students) will be auto-populated at the end of each semester
• All information is entered using a form-like tool similar to a Google Form

The second module is called Faculty Success RPT (Reviews, Promotion and Tenure) module. This module is deployed to a subset of faculty who are pursuing promotion, tenure or to be retained. This module is what opens the process for writing narratives for each area, teaching, research and service.

Important Dates

*Similar to requesting to be promoted you first must be vetted by Academic Affairs make sure you are eligible to apply for a sabbatical or educational leave.

Evaluation Memos from Contract Administrator

Watermark Tools/Guides

• A Faculty Success Accomplishments by Watermark.
• One of the helpful tools that is Curriculum Vitae Importer Tool which allows you to upload your Word/PDF CV to help build your portfolio. A and and of this process can reviewed.
• Your research publications can be imported from a BibTex file that various external applications can generate, e.g. Google Scholar, EndNote, RefWorks, etc. and that can reviewed.

NEIU Retention & Promotion Process and Technology Guides for 2025-2026

• Faculty Portfolio Guide

NEIU How-To Videos

Note: These videos are informal how-to videos; not professionally edited.

NEIU Instructor Review Process & Technological Guides

NEIU Post-Tenure Review Process & Technological Guides

Support Matrix

• Faculty needing assistance in using the tool can email ctl@neiu.edu or view this .
• Reviewers (Departmental Personnel Committees, Department Chairs, Deans and University Personnel Committees) can email assistance-assistance@neiu.edu.

Training Schedule

Zoom links will be provided via Nmail calendar invitations based on individuals who are directly effected by this change, e.g. if you are first- or second-year faculty member you will get a Zoom invitation for that session.

Please attempt to RSVP to Nmail calendar invitations so we can determine participation. All sessions will be conducted via Zoom. Each session will be remain open for 15 minutes; however, if no one joins the session will be concluded for the day.