* Coy was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award at Kent State University in 2000, and he was a finalist for the university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014.
* In 2013 Coy received the “Magnificat Award” from Marian University, the institution’s highest honor. It is awarded to “individuals who have exhibited outstanding service to their community, their profession, their career and/or their faith community … and to persons who have embodied creative responses to injustice and whose lives exemplify active compassion and service.”