Data Entry Guidance
Entering Your Activities
Use this guide to find the appropriate Faculty Success screen for your teaching, research, service, and other professional activities.
- Log in to Watermark Faculty Success using your NMSU credentials.
- Open the appropriate activity screen using the table below as a guide.
- Complete the required fields and any additional fields needed to document your activity.
Imported and Maintained Information
Some information is imported or maintained for you. Scheduled Teaching records are imported from Banner once a semester, and research records are imported from Streamlyne. Permanent Data and Yearly Data are maintained by your department or college.
If this information needs correction, review the FAQs or contact your college liaison.
Supporting Documents
Some screens allow you to attach supporting documents. These files can be accessed within Faculty Success and through links in generated reports.
For step-by-step instructions, visit the Tutorials.
| Faculty Function | Watermark Faculty Success Screen |
|---|---|
| Compensated administrative assignments, such as department head, director, or dean | Administrative Assignments |
| Awards and honors received | Awards and Honors |
| Uncompensated administrative assignments as a college, department, program, or university service contribution | Other Administrative Assignments Undertaken |
| Professional development events for Las Cruces campus faculty | Professional Development |
| Community College annual performance evaluation narratives | Community College Narratives |
| Community College professional development as applied scholarship | Community College Professional Development |
| Grants, contracts, and sponsored research with under review, funded, or non-funded status | Contracts, Grants Sponsored Research — ARGIS |
| Sponsorships, solicitations, donations, and noncompetitively awarded projects, such as IRG, Hatch projects, and McIntire-Stennis | Sponsorships, Other Funding — Non-ARGIS |
| Research in the planning, ongoing, or writing results phase | Research Currently in Progress |
| Credit hours that contribute to teaching total hours on the Performance Evaluation | Directed Student Learning |
| Credit courses imported from Banner once a semester. Attach a syllabus, indicate overload, new course preparation, or a new format, and provide evidence of teaching effectiveness. | Scheduled Teaching/Evaluation of Teaching |
| Artistic and professional creative activities | Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits |
| Presentations | Presentations |
| Publications | Books, Journals and Other Contributions |
| Internal committee work done on behalf of your department or college | Department or College |
| Advising student groups, mentoring faculty, serving as a program coordinator, academic program review, and similar activities | University |
| Editorships and officer roles in professional organizations | Professional |
| Community boards and community engagement activities | Community |
| Consulting, such as academic, government, NGO, management, statistical, expert witness, or agricultural consulting | Consulting |
| Audio, video, documentaries, and podcasts | Media Contributions |
| Cooperative extension activities | Cooperative Extension Service scholarship (ACES specific) |
| Extension: building community relationships by extending University resources. Outreach: responding to identified community needs through informal education programs and sharing intellectual expertise. | Outreach, Extension and Volunteerism |
| Areas of expertise, specialties, languages, and countries | Expertise |
| Outstanding leadership initiatives that contribute significant outreach for a program, group, or research effort |
Significant Leadership Activity Entries on this screen may be repeated from other sections. See the Promotion and Tenure Policy screen reference, where leadership is one of the criteria in evaluation for promotion. |
| Licensures and certifications specific to your position, such as nursing, law, teaching, engineering, CPA, LMSW, or IACUC credentials | Licensures and Certifications |