Board of Trustees meets on campus Friday, Saturday

The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet on campus this Friday and Saturday.

The Executive Committee of the board will hold a brief open session at the start of its meeting at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Taylor Room of the Statler Hotel on campus. The open session will include a discussion of the 1999-2000 operating and capital budget plans for the statutory colleges.

The full board will convene Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

During the board's open session, which will adjourn at approximately 10:30 a.m., the board will hear a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Provost Don M. Randel on the transition of faculty to emeritus status; and the annual report from Associate Provost Winnie Taylor on the status of women, American Indians, Asian Americans, African Americans and Hispanic Americans. The 1998-99 financial plan and statutory college budget also will be presented.

Three other committees also will have open sessions Friday:

• The Buildings and Properties Committee will meet at 8:30 a.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel to discuss the status of ongoing projects and the five-year capital plan for the statutory campus.

• The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will meet at 2 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room. The committee will hear updates on the state budget, state and federal relations and statutory tuitions.

• The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will meet at noon in the Taylor Room for discussion of a report on the 1998 graduation rate and curriculum in the School of Hotel Administration.

A limited number of tickets for the open sessions of the Executive Committee and full board are available at the Information and Referral desk in the lobby of Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the other committees.