The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca Thursday, May 23, through Saturday, May 25.

The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, May 24, in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. The open session will include a discussion of the 2002-2003 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. on Friday, May 24, in the Community Commons building on North Campus. During the open session, the board will hear a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Dean of the Faculty J. Robert Cooke; and the annual report from Robert Harris, vice provost for diversity and faculty development, on "Diversity and Inclusion." The 2002-2003 financial plan and contract college budget also will be presented.

The board will convene in closed, executive session at 9 a.m. Saturday, in B09 Sage Hall, for a general discussion and overview from the Presidential Search Committee.

The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will meet in open session at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 23, in the Rowe Room of the Statler. The committee will hear a report on the state budget and presentations from the Land Grant Mission Review committees.

These committees will have open sessions on campus Friday, May 24:

• The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet in open session at 9 a.m. in the Amphitheater 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. A vote is scheduled on changing the name of the Floyd R. Newman Laboratory of Nuclear Studies to the F. R. Newman Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics.

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 22, 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.