HSU Partners with Texas Parks and Wildlife

Hardin-Simmons hosted the Texas Hunter Educators Instructors Association’s 13th annual conference last weekend where they began a ground-breaking partnership with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD).

The partnership implements a full suite of outdoor skills training and conservation education programs with undergraduate classes in Elementary Education and Fitness and Sports Sciences. The goal is to train future generations of educators and school administrators in the arts of hunting, boating, fishing, paddling, archery, wildlife and habitat conservation so that they are prepared to incorporate these basic outdoor skills and knowledge with their class curriculum.

HSU is currently the only university in the entire state offering all the TPWD certification offerings and curriculums and is now the only private school to have an approved Memorandum of Agreement with TPWD.

Assistant Professor of Fitness and Sport Sciences Dr. Edgar Reed initiated and designed all the documents of the agreement.

At this year’s conference, Texas Parks and Wildlife certified instructors from all over the state came to HSU to receive various training and education opportunities from a variety of instructors. HSU was recognized at an awards banquet where Dr. Edgar Reed and TPWD Director Josh Havens ceremonially signed the Memorandum of Agreement.