As angry students chanted outside, University of California regents Thursday approved a 32 percent fee increase that will raise the price of a UC education to more than $10,000 per year for the first time.

The higher fees will first take effect in January with a 15 percent increase for the spring term. Prices will then rise another 15 percent above the new cost by August, making the new fees 32 percent higher than students pay now.

Only one regent, UC Santa Barbara graduate student Jesse Bernal, voted against the increases at the meeting on the UCLA campus. The board also approved fee increases of as much as 65 percent for some graduate students.

Undergraduates will pay about $10,300 by next fall, more than double the fees they paid a decade ago.

For the second day in a row, regents cleared the audience from the meeting room after students erupted in shouts and chants. Protesters could be heard outside the meeting during the vote, which came a day after at least 14 protesters were arrested as regents' committees met to recommend the increase.

The Associated Press reported that protesters blocked exits after Thursday's meeting, temporarily preventing some regents from leaving.

Outside the meeting hall, hundreds of demonstrators chanted, beat drums and hoisted signs opposing the fee increase. UC campus police, in face shields, and California Highway Patrol officers, toting beanbag-shooting guns, stood watch. The protest,

Other protesters Thursday took over an ethnic studies classroom building at the other end of the UCLA campus, chaining the doors shut and forcing cancellation of classes, school spokesman Phil Hampton said.

They later left, but a group of students on another campus still held a building.

More than 200 protesters occupied Clark Kerr Hall at UC Santa Cruz about 5:30 p.m.

Employees left the administration building for "their own safety," UC Santa Cruz spokesman Jim Burns said.

In Los Angeles, many students from other campuses flocked to UCLA to join the protests, staying overnight in a campus tent city.

Ayanna Moody, a second-year prelaw student, said she might have to return to community college next year.

"I worked so hard to be at one of the most prestigious universities. To have to go back, it's very depressing," she said.

Demonstrations also were held at other UC campuses.

UC President Mark Yudof said Wednesday that he could not rule out raising student fees again if the state is unable to meet his request for an additional $913 million next year for the 10-campus system.

"I can't make any "... promises," he said.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Associated Press contributed to this story. Matt Krupnick covers higher education. Reach him at 510-208-6488.