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Balancing teaching and administrative duties at the University of South Carolina

Balancing teaching and administrative duties at the University of South Carolina

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Doodle spoke with Simon Tarr, Professor of Media Arts and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of South Carolina. Professor Tarr shared how he uses Doodle to manage his busy calendar of meetings and how Doodle helps him carve out time for his own academic work. Like most academics, Professor Tarr has to juggle a range of roles and responsibilities. In addition to his teaching hours and office hours, he has to balance administrative duties, manage extra-curricular initiatives like his student-staffed ‘maker space’ and find time for his own research. His colleagues’ calendars are equally finely-calibrated. Before Doodle, finding time to meet was a challenge. Says Professor Tarr, “Academics are really like the poster children of the type of person who Doodle is perfe

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