Students at Baruch College yesterday clashed with NYPD cops and campus security officers during a protest over proposed tuition hikes — resulting in more than a dozen demonstrators getting busted, authorities said.
Hundreds of students began marching at 3 p.m. from Madison Square Park to the school at Lexington Avenue and East 24th Street.
City University trustees were holding a public meeting at the time to discuss whether to raise fees by as much as $300 in each of the next four years.
More than 95 speakers had signed up to address them, and the room was filled to capacity, a CUNY spokesman said.
“I am totally against the tuition hikes — that’s mainly why everyone is here,” one student told the college paper, The Ticker.
Some of the demonstrators were told to head to an overflow room, but instead pushed through barricades and forced their way into the lobby.
They were twice told to leave or head toward the overflow room.
Those who didn’t were arrested.
Five people face charges that include criminal trespass, attempted grand larceny and resisting arrest.
Ten others got summonses.
CUNY said one campus officer was taken to a hospital with chest pains, and two others suffered minor injuries during the scuffle.