The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca, March 6 -7.

The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 7, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. Approximately the first 50 minutes of the meeting will be open to the public. Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report on the Student Assembly by its president, senior Noah A. Doyle; a report on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly by the assembly's president, Joan Yasmine Moriarty; and an update on the state budget, including proposed contract college tuition.

The following board committees will have open sessions Thursday, March 6:

• The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet from 9:30 to 11:30 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.
• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the beginning of its meeting from 4 to 5:45 p.m. in the Taylor A/B Room of the Statler Hotel. Topics will include approval of the minutes of the January meeting.
• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will hold an open meeting from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Taylor A/B Room. Topics will include the state budget, preliminary contract college tuition recommendations and implementation of recommendations from the university's Land Grant Commission.
• The Audit Committee will hold a brief open session at the start of its 11:45 a.m. luncheon meeting. Topics will include a review of the risk-assessment process.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the full board will be available starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 4, at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall.