CHARLOTTE, NC – It’s the first day of spring classes at Johnson C. Smith University, two weeks after dorm rooms were evacuated due to concerns some of them had mold.

  • One student says the mold was making her sick.
  • She says she first reported the issue two years ago
  • The university states it spent the first weeks of the year checking every dorm room

Senior Jazlyn Lambert says her on-campus dorm room was making her sick, and it still sits unoccupied. She says she alerted the university president of the issue two years ago as a sophomore.

In a letter to students, the university states it spent the first weeks of the year checking every dorm room for suspected mold. Lambert says she's still in off-campus housing waiting for the green light to move back in her unit.

"They're working on it,” she says. “They haven't really given us an actually like time when we'll be moving back. Everybody hasn't moved back because i know they're still working on some rooms."

Lambert says nosebleeds she suspected were caused from the mold have stopped since she’s been in off-campus housing provided by the university.

"I mean I haven't really been having nosebleeds or anything, the hotel is not a problem,” she says.

The university says no student is currently assigned a dorm room where suspected mold was cleaned up.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the university says, "Classes begin today and students returned to campus beginning Friday, Jan. 18, either to their regular residence halls or to temporary housing assignments until remediation or other maintenance can be complete. We’ll know more about the remediation once that work is finished."​

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