The Cornell University Board of Trustees will have its regular spring semester meeting in Ithaca, March 27-28, with some sessions open to the public.

The full board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:15 to 5:15 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Statler Hotel Amphitheater on campus. The first 45 minutes of the morning session will be open to the public, and a limited number of tickets to the public session are available at the Information and Referral Center in the lobby of Day Hall.

Topics will include a report from State University of New York Chairman of the Board H. Carl McCall; a report on the Student Assembly by its president, Adam Gitlin; and a report on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly by its president, Mitch Paine.

In addition, the following board committees with open sessions will meet Wednesday, March 27:

• The Audit Committee will meet at 3:15 p.m. in the Yale/Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. An open session at the start of the meeting will include an annual policy review.

• The Buildings and Property Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. in the Statler Hotel Amphitheater. An open session at the start of the meeting will include the approval of site development guidelines at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

• The Committee on Governmental Relations will meet at 3:15 p.m. in the Statler Hotel Amphitheater. The 90-minute meeting is open to the public and will include updates on community, state and federal relations; as well as an overview by College of Human Ecology Dean Alan Mathios on the role of the National Institutes of Health in building cross-college collaborations.