Members of Cornell University's Board of Trustees and University Council will hold their annual meeting on the Ithaca campus Oct. 28 to 30.

A highlight of the meeting will be President Jeffrey Lehman's State of the University address Friday, Oct. 29, at 9 a.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium. Lehman will discuss his reflections on his inaugural Call to Engagement and will present his vision of Cornell as a transnational university.

The Board of Trustees will meet Friday from 2:15 to 3:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room of Appel Commons on North Campus. There will be a brief open session at the beginning of Friday's meeting. Items for discussion in open session will be 2003-04 financial reports, construction of Martha van Rensselaer Hall's west wing and other brief reports. The board also will meet Saturday in closed session.

Board committee meetings that will have open sessions are as follows:

• There will be a brief open session at the beginning of the Buildings and Properties committee meeting at 8 a.m. in the Yale/Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel on Thursday.
• The committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will meet in open session Thursday at 1:45 p.m. in the Yale/Princeton Room.
• There will be a brief open session at the beginning of the committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life Friday committee meeting at noon in the Taylor Room of the Statler Hotel.

Two building dedications will take place on Thursday:

• Lehman and David W. Butler, dean of the School of Hotel Administration, will dedicate the Robert A. and Jan M. Beck Center, a 35,000-square-foot addition to Statler Hall, at 1 p.m.
• The Alice H. Cook House, the first of five new residential halls on West Campus, will be dedicated at 2 p.m.

During the three-day meeting, council members and trustees also will attend panels on a variety of academic and scientific topics and attend the Cornell-Princeton football game Saturday.