Jackson Cultural Center at the University of Virginia. In 1989, Wiggins moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where he was the director of the Luther P. In 1989, Hampshire College named a building after Wiggins, the Lebrón-Wiggins-Pran Cultural Center. Wiggins moved to Massachusetts to be the director of the Center for the Study of Aesthetics in Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971 - 1973), and subsequently became an Associate Professor of Music at Hampshire College (1979 - 1986). He then moved to New York where he studied with American composer and theorist Henry Cowell and in 1961 became an authorized instructor of the Schillinger System of Musical Composition.

Wiggins went on to study at the Combs College of Music, where after about a week he was invited to be a member of the faculty, and where he earned his doctoral degree in music. In high school, Wiggins studied at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music, including studying with Vincent Persichetti, a classical composer, author, and Juilliard School of Music faculty member. He married his wife Muriel Dockery Wiggins on November 3, 1956, with whom he had three daughters, Rosalyn Cowell in 1957, Suzan Elaine in 1959, and Carol Melissa in 1966.

In 1950, he joined the Air Force, serving and playing with trumpeter Donald Byrd. In 1949, he moved to Philadelphia where he continued his music studies.

Wiggins was born in Ocean City, New Jersey, on April 15, 1932, where he began studying piano at 8 years old.

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