The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca Thursday, May 22, through Saturday, May 24.

The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting Friday, May 23, at 7:30 a.m. in Taylor A&B Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. The open session will include a discussion of the 2003-2004 financial plan for the contract colleges.

The full board will convene in open session at the start of its meeting at 3:15 p.m. Friday, May 23, in Room B09, Sage Hall. During the open session, the board will hear a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Joseph DeMarco, chair of the Employee Assembly, on the Assembly; and the annual report from Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, on "Diversity and Inclusion." The 2003-2004 financial plan and contract college budget will be presented, and trustees will vote on the Bailey Hall Rehabilitation Project design and budget, as well as the Mann Library rehabilitation design and project budget and authorization of construction.

The board will reconvene in a brief open session at 9 a.m. Saturday, May 24, in B09 Sage Hall, for a report from the retiring Dean of the Faculty J. Robert Cooke before its general discussion in closed session.

The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will meet in open session at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 22, in Taylor A&B Room of the Statler. The committee will hear a report on the state budget, on the Cornell Cooperative Extension budget situation and on implementation of Land Grant Mission Review recommendations.

These committees will have open sessions on campus Friday, May 23:

• The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet in open session at the start of its 9:30 a.m. meeting in the Yale/Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. Status reports on various construction projects will be presented.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the start of its 1 p.m. meeting in the Yale-Princeton Room. The committee will vote a resolution to establish a graduate field of biomedical engineering offering a masters of engineering degree and a resolution to establish a graduate field of information sciences offering a Ph.D.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the Executive Committee and of the full board will be available starting at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, at the Information and Referral desk in the lobby of Day Hall on campus. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the other committees.