The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 8 and 9.

The board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and again from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, 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 report on the Student Assembly, by assembly president Uzo Asonye, a junior; a report on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, by assembly president Patrick Carr; and an update on the state budget, including proposed statutory college tuition.

The following board committees will have open sessions Thursday, March 8:

• The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Johnson Museum. A brief open session at the start of the meeting will include an update on the status of ongoing projects.
• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will hold an open meeting, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., in the Taylor A/B Room of the Statler Hotel. Topics will include state budget lobbying, preliminary statutory college tuition recommendations and a discussion of Cornell as a land grant university, present and future.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the beginning of its meeting from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. Topics will include the priorities of Susan Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the full board will be available starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the committees.