The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 9 and 10.

The board will meet from 9 a to 11:45 a.m. and again from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 10, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. The morning session will be open to the public from 9 to approximately 10 a.m. Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a presentation by Ithaca Mayor Alan Cohen; a report on the Student Assembly by assembly President Emanuel Tsourounis, a senior; and an update on the state budget, including proposed statutory college tuition.

The following board committees will have open sessions Thursday, March 9:

• The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. A brief open session at the start of the meeting will include an update on the status of ongoing projects and a recommendation from Rawlings that the board authorize the administration to contract with the State University Construction Fund for renovations to Emerson Hall for the plant genomics initiative.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the beginning of its meeting from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Townhouse Community Center. Topics will include an overview of centers, institutes, laboratories and programs by Provost Don Randel.
• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will hold an open meeting from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Taylor A/B Room of the Statler Hotel. Topics will include state budget review, preliminary statutory college tuition recommendations and an update on statutory college construction.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the full board will be available starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the committees.