The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 28 and 29.

The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. A 20-minute open session will be held at the start of the meeting. Topics will include an update on State University of New York (SUNY) budget discussions and discussion of statutory college tuitions and the universitywide admissions and financial aid policy.

The board's open session on Friday, March 29, will run for approximately two hours, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Trustee Meeting Room at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. SUNY Chancellor Thomas A. Bartlett will attend the meeting accompanied by SUNY Trustee Edward F. Cox. Bartlett will address the Cornell board at 9:15 a.m. on Friday. Cornell's four statutory colleges -- the College of Human Ecology, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations -- are part of the SUNY system.

Topics on the agenda of the open session also include the state budget situation, statutory college tuitions and the universitywide policy on admissions and financial aid. Three other board committees will have open sessions: " The Buildings and Properties Committee will have a brief open session at the beginning of its meeting Thursday, March 28, at 9 a.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. Topics will include the statutory capital project current outlook.

" The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will hold an open meeting from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. Friday in the Wiswall Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine. Topics will include a budget update, including early retirement legislation, a legislative update and proposed statutory college tuitions.

" The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the beginning of its meeting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Statler's Pennsylvania Room. The topic will be the final report on the Middle States Association Periodic Review.

" The Audit Committee will hold a brief open session at the start of its dinner meetings at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Taylor Room of the Statler.

A limited number of tickets for the open sessions of the Executive Committee and of the full board will be available starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, at the Information and Referral desk in the lobby of Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the other committees.

EDITORS: Tickets to the Board of Trustees meetings are available to the news media by contacting the Cornell News Service, 840 Hanshaw Road, Ithaca, NY, (607) 255-4206. In addition, for your information, the board of trustees has invited Ithaca Mayor Alan Cohen to make a brief presentation at its Friday afternoon session.