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By “support”, I mean no opposition. How is Touro any different from Project COPE? Touro doesn’t claim to have any shitos of being well-rounded. It is strictly for parnassah. Either nishtaneh hateva or someone gave Rav Elya Svei ZT”L misinformation. YU or YCT it’s not. It’s project COPE witjh a 4 year degree instead of 2.
Rav elya svei ZT”L is correct that it’s hard to be a Ben Torah when you’re dancing at 2 chasunahs. The best learning is when you finish college and cna learn without distraction. I have plenty of friends who are Rabbeim, shul rabbis, etc who went to college for parnassah and didn’t need it. I also have friends who are using their college degree and are glad they are. I also have a friend who was told NOT to attend college while in yeshiva, and now his family is seriously struggling with trying to earn a living a getting a degree to make enough to support said family without so much tzimtzum.
But as always, ask your LOR. I’m not anyone’s LOR and neither is Joseph.