images/stories/images/people/petecoser.jpgPete G. Coser, Ed.D.
 Dr. Pete G. Coser was born and raised in Okmulgee, OK. He is a full-blood member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Coser is of the Fox Clan, Kashita Tribal Town and an adopted member of the Arbeka Talladega Tribal Town and Ceremonial Ground. During his professional career, Dr. Coser has worked in inner city schools, rural consolidated school districts, higher education institutions, federally funded programs, and tribal government. Coser has served in the positions of teacher, professor, counselor, and administrator. Dr. Coser currently serves at Bacone College as a Special Assistant to the President for Tribal Affairs, Acting Director of the Center for American Indian Studies, Coordinator of the American Indian Summer Bridge Program, and has faculty rank of Associate Professor and teaches American Indian Tribal Government for the American Indian Studies Department.

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Office of American Indian Concerns

 

The office of the Director of Native American Concerns is located in Walter Starr Hall. The Director of Native American Concerns acts a liaison between Native American employees, students, the President and the Board of Trustees. The Director of Native Concerns may hear issues such as:

 

Native American working conditions
disciplinary actions
employee and applicant appeals
conflict resolutions.

 

The process for bringing an issue to the attention of the Director of Native Concerns is as follows:

* Contact the Director of Native Concerns via e-mail or at Walter Starr.
* The Director will facilitate a personal meeting to hear the concern and will provide a written outline to the complainant to verify that the concern has been appropriately heard and the complaint clarified.
* The Director will then e-mail the complaint/issue to the President of the College and to those Board of Trustees members appointed to hear concerns.
* The President will investigate or cause to have investigated the issue brought forward and will provide a written response within one week's time to parties involved.

The Director of Native Concerns is not an investigative or decision- making party. The Director hears, clarifies and disseminates the issue to the appropriate parties identified above