Faculty Success (by Watermark)
Faculty Success is MSU’s web-based system, hosted by Watermark, for maintaining faculty activity information used in annual reviews, annual reports, accreditation documents, faculty web profiles, CVs, biosketches, promotion and tenure materials, grant reporting, and institutional reporting.
The system is intended to reduce duplicate reporting by giving faculty one place to enter and update information about their teaching, scholarship, service, and other professional activities. Faculty Success is available anytime from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection.
Where possible, MSU pre-populates information from Banner and other existing systems. Faculty may also import citation information from reference managers and publication databases, reducing the need to re-enter publication records manually.
- Faculty Essentials (getting started w/ new, 2026, experience)
- MSU Quick Start Guide
- Importing data from your CV into Faculty Success
- Web Directory & Faculty Profile Documentation
- Faculty Web Profile Template - See where items in web profile pull from in Faculty Success
- ORCID, Faculty Success, and Documenting Your Scholarly Work
- Creating Custom Formatted Reports
- Generating Reports
- Saving "Ad Hoc" Reports for Repeat Use
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Local help (email)
- Guide to Entering Activities into FS & Submitting to the Annual Review Process through Workflow
- Guide to Reviewing Faculty Annual Reviews Through Faculty Success Workflow (for Department Heads/Chairs)
- Video - Submitting to a Workflow Process
- Video - Reviewing a Workflow Submission (for Dept Heads/Deans)