Clayton College of Natural Health

CLAYTON COLLEGE INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE

This information clearinghouse is an attempt to try to keep you updated on developments relating to the school. Regardless of how trivial or substantial, we will attempt to post the updates as quickly and frequently as we can. We will also date the postings so that you’ll be able to tell which postings are the most recent.

The college has received e-mails and telephone calls from many of you regarding the current, unfortunate situation and is not able to respond individually at this time. However, the college is working on possible teach out and transfer options, and will provide information on these as soon as possible.

Please direct all future communications to:
Clayton College of Natural Health
P.O. Box 2488
Birmingham, AL 35201

All inquiries, please include your email address. Student inquiries, please include your CCNH student number. Students can access their MyCCNH accounts by clicking here.

July 30, 2010

As recently announced we are beginning a teach-out program so that we can work with as many of you as possible to complete your terms or programs, or to help provide you with transfer information. Students eligible for teach-out fall into the following categories:

I. Students in the College’s “Term” Model of Enrollment
These are students who enrolled on April 28, 2009 or later, and are currently in a term which they have not yet completed. We anticipate being able to teach-out all students who are in open terms.

Regarding finances, if you have a balance due for your current term, payment of that balance will be required at the end of your term. Verification of course completion will be available in your “My CCNH” account. Unofficial transcripts may also be obtained at this location.

If you are a program student and wish to be taught out, please download and complete the “CCNH Student Teach-Out Form” and mail it to:
Clayton College of Natural Health
P.O. Box 2488
Birmingham, AL 35201

After submitting your completed teach-out form, please feel free to begin submitting work (don’t hesitate to submit coursework with your Teach-Out Form), also to the post office box referenced above, immediately.

The deadline for submission of coursework for term students is November 30, 2010.

II. Students in the “Annual Enrollment Program (AEP)” Model of Enrollment
These are also students who enrolled on April 28, 2009 or later, and are currently in a term which they have not yet completed. We anticipate being able to teach-out all AEP students who are in open terms.

If you have enrolled in, and have paid for courses in terms that will follow your current, open term, we will be able to teach you out proportionate to what you have already paid for your coursework. Here are some examples of how this will work:

a) Following the completion of your current term, if you have two more courses as part of your AEP, and you have already paid for those courses in full, we will teach-out both of those courses;
b) Following the completion of your current term, if you have two more courses as part of your AEP, and you have paid for 50% of those courses, we will teach-out one of those courses;
c) Following the completion of your current term, if you have two or more courses as part of your AEP, and you have made no payments toward those courses, you will not be eligible for teach-out, and we invite you to review transfer information which will be posted on the “CCNH Information Clearinghouse” sometime soon.

After submitting your completed teach-out form (don’t hesitate to submit coursework with your Teach-Out Form), please feel free to begin submitting work, also to the post office box referenced above, immediately. The deadline for submission of coursework for term students is November 30, 2010.

III. Students in the College’s “Program” Model of Enrollment
These are students who enrolled in a program on or before April 27, 2009 and are eligible to continue their studies in the teach-out plan. The time frame for this teach-out is limited, with a January 31, 2011 deadline for submission of coursework (not including PhD dissertations).

Students who are able to complete their degree program through this coursework will be graduated and will receive a diploma, provided that no balance is due on your account. If you have a balance due for your program, payment of that balance must be made before graduation can be finalized. Students with a balance due will be billed, in one lump sum, at the end of their program. We ask that you not make payments over the course of your teach-out.

After submitting your completed teach-out form (don’t hesitate to submit coursework with your Teach-Out Form), please feel free to begin submitting work, also to the post office box referenced above, immediately.

Please note:
Study guides will be available only through PDF documents, and students will be required to procure their own textbooks (through sources such as Amazon.com). Consultation on coursework or other academic issues will be extremely limited.

We will do our best to assist as many of you as possible throughout the teach-out program. Thank you for your patience in this process.

July 26, 2010

It has been a while since we made a new post. Things were a bit delayed last week as a result of a key IT person being on vacation. We are getting closer to starting a limited teach out, and hope to post procedures on this Web site later this week. Thank you for your patience.

July 20, 2010

Teach Out:
We received a commitment from a very capable educator who will coordinate a limited teach-out program. She just committed to the project on Monday afternoon, so we’re not able to offer details on when the teach-out will commence and the mechanics of how it will be handled.

We are going to try to teach out as many students as possible, but given the college’s limited resources, teaching out everyone may not be possible. For these students, transferring to another school may be an option (see below).

Transfers:
We have made contact with several natural health colleges to discuss trying to coordinate a transfer and/or test out program. All with whom we spoke were supportive, asked for time to think about logistics, and said that they would get back in touch with us.

We will post another update when we have more information.

July 17, 2010

Dear Clayton College students, graduates, and other stakeholders,

Over the last week, we have been contacted by many, many concerned people. From these communiqués, recurring messages were: “What’s happening with the school? Where are you? All we want is to know what’s going on.”

Please accept our apologies for being unable to impart more substantive information more quickly regarding the school’s future plans. There has been a tremendous amount of work required to scale down operations and chart a way forward.

This information clearinghouse is an attempt to try to keep you updated on developments relating to the school. Regardless of how trivial or substantial, we will attempt to post the updates as quickly and frequently as we can. We will also date the postings so that you’ll be able to tell which postings are the most recent.

We are in the process of developing plans and options for a teach out and identifying options for student transfers. Although the plan is a first draft, and needs more detail and work before it can be launched, we feel like it’s movement forward. We’ll continue to work on the development of the plan throughout the weekend.

Also today, as promised during a meeting on Monday, July 12th, we spoke with a representative of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education to apprise them of the school’s recent activities. The information shared was virtually identical to what’s written above. The DPE was encouraged and encouraging.

On Monday, we will try to update you on what we were able to accomplish over the weekend.