Twenty years later, St. Cloud State’s English as a Second Language program is the largest producer of ESL teachers in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and the second-largest producer in the state behind Hamline. Its program has about 200 students, and as many as 50 will get their degrees this year.

“Because there’s a job at the end of it is what attracts students to us,” Robinson said. “A student walks in and I tell them, ‘Do what I tell you to do, and you’ll get a job.’ ”

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