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 Recent FSU graduate, Melissa Lyon admits she is a little on the shy side. Yet in a life-changing moment, she stepped outside of herself when she took a huge leap of faith and relocated to unknown territory. Reared on a dairy farm in Grey Eagle, Minnesota, Melissa moved to Fayetteville after a visit with her cousin.
She remembers, “I packed everything in my car and drove across country by myself. It was the first time I left outside of Minnesota other than to go through neighboring states. It was an experience within itself.”
That was five years ago, and Melissa has not bothered to look back. She says, “I liked the area because of the variety of people. I grew up in a small farm town, so Fayetteville is huge to me.” >> Read More
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The Sociology Club is here to help. I believe that it is good to belong to an organization in which you can make a difference. We’ve been trying to motivate people and let them know we are here, and we won’t be going anywhere anytime soon.
“I want to come back to Fayetteville State and teach…As you can tell, I love my HBCU. That’s the distinction between graduates from HBCUs and graduates from other schools. Too often, we don’t come back because we feel like we have to prove our education is just as valid as anyone else’s. Fortunately, I am just as confident and competitive with my degrees from FSU as anyone from Duke, UNC, or anywhere else, and I look forward to helping instill that same sense of academic accomplishment in future generations of Broncos.”