Missouri Western won’t be penalized for a tuition increase higher than allowed under state law.  Western got word today that Higher Education Commissioner David Russell waived the penalty.  The announcement came two days after Western’s board of governors reduced a planned tuition increase at Russell’s request. Tuition will jump 5.5 percent this fall.  Before the downward revision, the increase had been set at 6.3 percent.  Without the waiver granted by Russell today, Western could have lost up to 5 percent of its state funding.