Students protesting a proposed tuition fee increase at the University of Ottawa managed to shut down a board of governors meeting to approve the increase on Monday evening.

The original proposal on Friday would see tuition rise by three per cent per year for the next four years.

But before the Monday meeting, the proposal changed to a one-year increase of three per cent, according to Anne-Marie Roy, president of the university's student federation.

About 75 noisy, disruptive students managed to shut down the meeting not long after it began.