Academic Affairs selects vendor for online faculty activity reporting system

March 6, 2026
Categories: Faculty/Staff

The Division of Academic Affairs has selected Watermark as the vendor to implement the planned online faculty activity reporting system, which will help faculty more easily document their teaching, research and service.

The centralized platform will bring in data from a variety of on-campus and off-campus sources, such as data on many forms of publications and student evaluations of teaching. It will allow that data, along with faculty-provided data, to be stored in a secure environment that is accessible to each faculty member. This system is intended to improve information flow between faculty, chairs and deans, making processes such as annual evaluations easier for faculty.

The University’s faculty activity reporting system will utilize Watermark’s web-based platform, providing a centralized, secure system for documenting teaching, research, creative activity and service. The online system will become the University’s required platform for faculty activity reporting.

The system is intended to reduce duplicative reporting by allowing faculty to enter activity information once and use it for multiple purposes, including annual evaluations, promotion and tenure documentation, post-tenure review and curriculum vitae preparation.

Faculty will be able to maintain records of teaching, publications, presentations, service, awards and other professional accomplishments in one location. The implementation of the faculty activity reporting system will not change what faculty are expected to report.

Watermark is used by institutions nationwide and was selected following campus engagement and review, including campus presentations to the project team and campus committees that included faculty from all colleges. A group of 30 faculty members (including chairs, deans and associate deans) and 22 staff members (including research, accreditation, reporting, budget office and OneIT) worked with the University’s purchasing team to develop the request for proposal to identify the vendor.

The system is expected to launch in July and will be used for the annual faculty evaluation process covering the 2026 calendar year.

More details — including a timeline for building and implementing the online platform, college-specific points of contact and a webpage with updates and FAQs — will be shared in the coming months.

Faculty Reporting System Vendor Selection Campus Committees

Executive Committee

  • Eric Heggestad, associate provost for academic affairs
  • Artie Zillante, senior associate dean, Belk College of Business
  • Katie Kelley, associate vice chancellor, OneIT enterprise applications
  • Brandon DeLeeuw, executive director, OneIT academic affairs
  • Alex Chapin, director, OneIT academic affairs support, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences and Klein College of Science

Faculty Committee

  • David Dalton, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • John Smail, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • Joanne McGuire, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • Apryl Alexander, College of Health and Human Services
  • Mona Azarbayjani, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Heather Freeman, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Will Campbell, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Carlos Cruz, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Dolly King, College of Business
  • Amy Good, Cato College of Education
  • Wes Williams, William States Lee College of Engineering
  • Tonya Bates, Klein College of Science
  • Andy Truman, Klein College of Science

Department Chair Committee

  • Min Shin, College of Computing and Informatics
  • Dongsong Zhang, Belk College of Business and College of Computing and Informatics
  • Eddy Souffrant, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • Kirk Melnikoff, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • Sean McCloud, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • JP Barfield, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • Gretchen Alterowitz, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Chandra Subramaniam, Belk College of Business
  • Chuang Wang, Cato College of Education
  • Asis Nasipuri, William States Lee College of Engineering
  • Tom Schmedake, Klein College of Science

Associate Dean Committee

  • Greg Weeks, College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences
  • Lyndie Forthofer, College of Health and Human Services
  • Dean Adams, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Delia Neil, College of Arts + Architecture
  • Bettie Butler, Cato College of Education
  • Matt Parrow, Klein College of Science

Research and Accreditation Committee

  • Mitchel Cottenoir, accreditation
  • Christine Robinson, accreditation
  • Jessica Barton, business affairs
  • Carrie Smith, business affairs
  • Ken Smith, business affairs
  • April Spruill, business affairs
  • Steve Coppola, institutional effectiveness
  • Darlene “Darl” Booker, research
  • Michael Braham, research
  • John Daniels, research
  • Deb Thomas, research

OneIT Committee

  • Mark Olson, OneIT academic affairs support, College of Computing and Informatics
  • Tim Carmichael, OneIT academic affairs support, Belk College of Business
  • Heather McLendon, OneIT, business affairs
  • Elizabeth Palian, OneIT, business affairs, financial applications support
  • Vicki Turman, OneIT, business affairs, human resources applications support
  • Mike Hancock, OneIT enterprise applications, application infrastructure
  • John Schroeder, OneIT enterprise applications, Banner ERP
  • Josh Jaggers, OneIT enterprise applications, data and analytics
  • Tim Burns, OneIT enterprise applications, security
  • Susan Wagoner, OneIT enterprise infrastructure, security