Cornell trustees and council to meet in Ithaca, Oct. 20-22

The Cornell University Board of Trustees and the Cornell University Council will hold their annual meeting at Cornell, Thursday through Saturday, Oct.20-22.

A highlight of the joint meeting will be President Hunter Rawlings' State of the University address before both groups Friday, Oct. 21, beginning at 8:45 a.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall.

The board of trustees will meet Friday from 2:15 to 4:45 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 2004-05 financial reports and reports from the board's standing committees. The board also will meet Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in closed session.

Board committee meetings that will have open sessions this week, all in the Statler Hotel and Conference Center, are as follows:

  • The Trustee Community Communications Committee will meet in open session Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Harvard Room.
  • There will be a brief open session at the beginning of the Buildings and Properties Committee meeting Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in the Yale/Princeton-Penn Room.
  • The Committee on Academic Affairs will hold a brief open session at the beginning of its meeting Thursday at 11:45 a.m. in the Taylor A/B Rowe Room.
  • The Committee on Governmental Relations will have a 20-minute open session at the beginning of its meeting Thursday at 1:45 p.m. in the Yale/Princeton Room.

During the three-day Trustee-Council Weekend, council members and trustees also will attend panels on a variety of academic and scientific topics, receptions and dinners, and many will attend the Cornell-Brown football game Saturday at 1 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.
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