Proceedings of the 1985 annual meeting of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) are presented. Contents include: three addresses and a lecture, remarks about/from distinguished alumni who received awards, brief summaries of additional addresses, reports from AASCU officers and projects, and an agenda of the annual meeting. Addresses/reports and authors include: "Retrospect and Prospect" (Harland Cleveland); "The Federal Role in Higher Education" (E. Thomas Coleman); "USIA and Higher Education" (Marvin Stone); "2010: The Next Twenty-Five Years" (Kala M. Stroup); "Report on AASCU Foundation" (Joseph A. Caputo); "Report of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation" (Ellis E. McCune); "Report of the Office for the Advancement of Public Black Colleges" (Joyce Payne); "Special Recommendations for Public Relations Campaign for State Colleges and Universities" (George Ayers); "Report of the Chairman" (Aubrey K. Lucas); "Report of the President" (Allan W. Ostar); and "Report of the Treasurer" (Myron L. Coulter). Topics on which resolutions are presented include: a new organization called "Accuracy in Academia," functions of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation, Title XII of the Foreign Assistance Act, Higher Education Amendments of 1985, and missions and responsibilities of urban state colleges and universities. (SW)