Lloyd Clayton Jr.

Lloyd E. Clayton, Jr. is an American naturopath who established three for profit educational institutions in Birmingham, Alabama. The schools he founded are Clayton College of Natural Health, the American Institute of Computer Science (now part of American Sentinel University), and Chadwick University. He also owns a business that sells herbal and homeopathic products.

Clayton has stated that he received a Doctor of Naturopathy degree in 1978. As a practitioner, his specialties were herbology and massage.

In the late 1970s Lloyd Clayton started an eco-friendly business to sell natural products for health; the business currently operates as Clayton Naturals. He started Clayton College of Natural Health in 1980 as the American College of Holistic Nutrition in 1980. It changed its name to Clayton College of Natural Health in 1997.

In 1988 he established the American Institute of Computer Science. In 2000 that institution was incorporated into American Sentinel University.

In 1989 he started Chadwick University, a distance education institution offering programs in many fields. Chadwick has been called a diploma mill due to its practice of awarding academic credit for "life experience". Chadwick was not accredited, but at different times it claimed accreditation from the International Association of Universities and Schools and the World Association of Universities and Colleges, neither of which is a recognized educational accrediting organization. Initially Chadwick also had no state license, due to a ruling that it could operate in Alabama without a license as long as it did not enroll state residents as students, but the institution obtained a state license in 1996. Chadwick's state license was renewed in 2005 and expired in January 2007. In February 2007 the Tuscaloosa News reported that the school's address was in a Birmingham building "labeled ... as the location of Magnolia Corporate Services", and "a call to a phone number listed for Chadwick went to voicemail for Magnolia Corporate Services". Chadwick ceased operation some time thereafter.

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