The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 26 and 27.

The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., and again from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 27, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The morning session will be open to the public. Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; an update on State University of New York (SUNY) budget discussions and discussion of statutory college tuitions; the university wide admissions and financial aid policy; and a presentation by the university's first Presidential Research Scholars.

Two board committees will have open sessions on Thursday, March 26:

• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will hold an open meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. Topics will include preliminary statutory college tuition recommendations and the university's relationship with SUNY.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the end of its meeting in the Statler's Yale-Princeton Room. The open session will begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. Topics will include a proposed new Master of Professional Studies in Applied Statistics degree program and review of curriculum in the College of Engineering.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the full board will be available starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, at the Information and Referral desk in the lobby of Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the committees.