Faculty Portfolios & Evaluations

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.  In Academic Year 2026 sabbatical applications and educational leave applications as well as ASP, ARP, instructor reviews plus post tenure annual reviews were all completed in Faculty Success.   

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

*Remember this is the only feature, the text boxes to copy/paste your narratives, not immediately available.  All other tasks can be completed anytime, e.g. uploading instructional materials, documenting research and service activities.

**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 

• 2026-2027 Teaching Professional & Research Professional Evaluation Memo
• 2026-2027 Instructor Evaluation Memo
• 2026-2027 Academic Resource Professional Evaluation Memo
• 2026-2027 Academic Support Professional Evaluation Memo

Leave Memos from Contract Administrator 

• 2027-2028 Faculty Sabbatical Leave Memo (submitted in October 2026) 
• 2027-2028 Educational Leave for Level I-IV Admins & Department Chairs Leave Memo (submitted October 2026)
• 2027-2028 Educational Leave for Instructors, ARPs, & ASPs Leave Memo (submitted October 2026)

Watermark Tools/Guides

• A General Overview comparing the new vs old Faculty Success Accomplishments User Interface by Watermark.
• 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 process can reviewed.

NEIU Retention & Promotion Process and Technology Guides for 2026-2027

• Faculty Portfolio Guide
• Department Personnel Committee Guide
• Department Chairperson Guide (coming soon)
• College Dean Guide (coming soon)

NEIU How-To Videos

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

• 2026-2027 Videos Coming Soon

NEIU Instructor Review Process & Technological Guides

• 2026-2027 Instructor Materials Coming Soon

NEIU Post-Tenure Review Process & Technological Guides

• 2026-2027 Post-Tenure Materials Coming Soon

NEIU Academic Support Professional Process & Technological Guides

• 2026-2027 ASP Materials Coming Soon

Support Matrix

• Faculty needing assistance in using the tool can email ctl@neiu.edu or view this help site.
• 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 needing the support/training, 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.