Patrick Coggins

He has had extensive experience designing and teaching courses in cultural diversity, multicultural education ESOL, social studies methods and classes on cross cultural communication. His publications concern confidentiality, fraud discovery and control, cultural competence and the WWII Tuskegee Airmen.

Coggins also devotes much of his time to student and campus organizations. He is the co-founder and co-Chair of ALANA-IA Faculty Caucus and is the advisor to the Black Student Association, the Hispanic and Latin American Student Organization (HOLA), the Caribbean Student Organization, the Asian Pacific American Students and serves on a Faculty Senate Committee. He is also the Florida commissioner of education's appointee to the Holocaust Task Force. He advises the Cross Cultural Center on cross cultural programs. He serves as the campus coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King Day Celebration and coordinates the Multicultural Alumni Student Awareness Day during Homecoming weekend. Coggins strives to eliminate the academic achievement gap and the implicit and explicit bias between diverse and majority students by creating an atmosphere of cultural competence between students and faculty while instilling the need to overcome racial, gender and ethnic barriers that impede living in a modern multicultural multiracial society.