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Trustees meet in NYC:The Cornell Board of Trustees will hold its first meetings of 2004 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell in New York City, today through Saturday, Jan. 22-24. The full board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m. Friday. The first 15 minutes of the afternoon meeting will be open to the public. The rest of those meetings and a meeting Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. will be closed. The meetings will be in the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Education Center, 1300 York Ave. Among topics of discussion will be a report from President Jeffrey Lehman and a report from the College of Arts and Sciences. The board is expected to approve 2004-05 tuition rates for the endowed colleges. In addition to the full board meetings, the following committees with open sessions will meet today or Friday:

  • The Buildings and Properties Committee is meeting briefly in open session to discuss ongoing construction projects at the start of its 9:30 a.m. meeting today in the Fall Creek Room.

  • The Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs Committee will meet in open session at 2 p.m. today in the Fall Creek Room. Items to be discussed at this open meeting include higher education in New York state and state relations, and state and federal budget issues.

  • The Audit Committee will have an open session at the beginning of its meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Fall Creek Room. The committee's annual report will be presented.

  • The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will have a brief open session at its meeting at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Room A-126 for approval of minutes from the October meeting.

    Tickets for the board of trustees meeting are available at the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall.

    Campus Club ESL classes:Registration for the Cornell Campus Club's ESL (English as a Second Language) classes for adults will be Tuesday, Jan. 27, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall. Placement advising for advanced students will be from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Classes begin Feb. 2. For further information, contact Anita Watkins at aw236@cornell.edu.

    Spanish, Portuguese classes:The Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) offers beginning and intermediate Spanish and Portuguese classes for the Cornell and Ithaca communities. New classes begin Feb. 2. Classes are taught by native speakers and are geared toward conversational fluency. Contact CUSLAR for more information or to register:cuslar@cornell.edu, 255-7293.

    January 22, 2004

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