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By Jake Jarvis After denying the same request two weeks ago, the council that oversees the community colleges in West Virginia approved a 7 percent tuition increase at BridgeValley Community and Technical College. The Council for Community and Technical Colleges approved the increase during a conference call, along with a handful of budgets for institutions that had to rework their budgets after their tuition increases were previously rejected. "For me, I'm not sure how the council can approve a 9 percent at one school and not approve this," said Councilman Bob Brown, referencing the council's last meeting where it approved similar increases but denied larger ones.