Third Year Reviews may be required by your department. Watermark Faculty Success handles third year reviews. Chairs or Deans can request the use of Watermark Faculty Success for third year reviews by emailing watermark@etsu.edu the following information:
- Name of candidate(s)
- Name of reviewer(s) (Examples: department committee chair and members)
- Deadlines for candidate submission and reviews
- Additional information on the process (Example: should the dossier be reviewed by
the department committee only or should it also be routed to the chair, dean, or others
for review.)
Instructions for Faculty
In the application, candidates can save their progress by clicking Save Draft. Once clicking Submit to Review, they cannot make changes to the application (with limited exceptions allowed in university policies). Each field should have one PDF document uploaded (with the exception of Faculty Activity Plans, Reports, and Evaluations in Watermark). Name files as [First and Last Name of Candidate] [Name of Form]. File size is limited to one gigabyte per file.
- Curriculum Vita
- Narrative Statement [Please carefully review your department's promotion or tenure criteria and clearly and completely outline how you meet them in your narrative statement.]
- Supporting Document [Please provide additional documentation as evidence for your accomplishments related to the promotion criteria you've described meeting in your narrative statement. Examples may include: letters of support, publications, abstracts, award notifications or certificates, etc.]
- Faculty Activity Plans, Reports, and Evaluations in Watermark
- Faculty Activity Plans, Reports, and Evaluations - Prior to Watermark
- Course Load (using forms below or creating a report Watermark showing your scheduled teaching):
Student Assessment of Instruction Reports
Peer Reviews of Teaching Evaluation Forms
Addendum [optional upload field]
Comments [optional text field]
Please contact your departmental administrative assistant, business manager, or chair
to find out how to obtain any items on this list and your department's requirements
for letters of support and supporting documents.
Note: This provides instructions for the 2024-2025 third year reviews. If your third year review launched prior to August 15, 2024, you will have an older version of the form. Please reach out to watermark@etsu.edu if you have questions.
For further information, stream the following presentations. While the presentations focus on the submitting your final application for promotion/tenure, the content is applicable to third-year reviews.
Submitting Your Promotion and Tenure Dossier to Watermark Faculty Success: This presentation demonstrates the process of submitting your promotion/tenure dossier in the Watermark system. The instructions in this presentation is applicable to third-year reviews. Slides are also available to view.
Telling Your Academic Story: This presentation summarizes how to create an effective promotion/tenure dossier. Slides are also available to view.