AUDEM's first decade centered on reorientations of management training, economics education, and similar topics in the social sciences in an effort to assist universities from the former communist countries to move to their new socially responsible and proactive roles in democratic societies. Today, AUDEM's New Agenda is expanded to include the integration of universities at competitive levels into the world academic and economic communities.

Between 1990 and 2000, AUDEM was headquartered at the University of Tennessee and was registered as a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization in the United States. With the election of Dr. Julia M. Watkins for AUDEM President in November 2000, the Board of Directors decided on the dissolution of the Tennessee-based entity and the integration of AUDEM as a department of the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), of which Dr. Watkins was President since 1994 and 2003. In November 2002 Dr. John Ryder of the State University of New York assumed the Presidency of AUDEM.

For more information, email the AUDEM European Office.