Brief

Trustees meeting on campus: The Cornell Board of Trustees is meeting on campus today and Friday. The full board will meet Friday from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The morning session will be open to the public.

Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; an update on State University of New York (SUNY) budget discussions and discussion of statutory college tuitions; the universitywide admissions and financial aid policy; and a presentation by the university's first Presidential Research Scholars. Two board committees will have open sessions today:

·The Committee on Land Grant and Statutory College Affairs will hold an open meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. Topics will include preliminary statutory college tuition recommendations and the university's relationship with SUNY.

·The Committee on Academic Affairs and Campus Life will hold a brief open session at the end of its meeting in the Statler's Yale-Princeton Room. The open session will begin at approximately 10:15 a.m. Topics will include a proposed new Master of Professional Studies in Applied Statistics degree program and review of curriculum in the College of Engineering.

A limited number of tickets for the open session of the full board are available at the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall. No tickets are needed for the open sessions of the committees.