Predictions on higher education for 1984-2009 are presented in the proceedings of a colloquium of the Institute for Studies in Higher Education of Florida State University. Presentations were made at the colloquium by 10 graduates of the university whose current positions represent administration-management, instruction, research, and student services. Colloquium presentations and authors include the following: "The Comprehensive State University" (John L. Blackburn); "The Professoriate" (Annette Gibbs, Terry E. Williams); "Private Higher Education" (James Olliver); "The Two-Year Community-Junior College" (Ruth A. Douglas); "The Historically Black Institutions" (Richard Mashburn, Jr.); "The Two-Year Technical Institutes" (Georgia L. Sims); "National and Regional Organizations" (Perry Edward Anthony); "Associations and Agencies...Federal, Regional and State" (Howard L. Simmons); "The Business-Corporate Sector" (John Phillip Halstead, Lynda Brinks); "The Colloquium in Summary" (David G. Robinson); and "The Colloquium in Retrospect: Behind the Scenes" (Carl Christian Andersen). (SW)