Established in 2004, the Cambio Center Executive Committee is charged to provide advisory input to the University as the Cambio Center seeks to achieve its primary goals. They are to provide education and enhance the welfare of all residents of the state of Missouri in the context of the current demographic changes; to develop a premier source of knowledge, scholarship, and outreach to respond to the local effects of globalization; to provide knowledge and best practices to facilitate the integration of newcomers to Missouri and the Midwest; and understand the international nature of the immigration process, the cultures and institutions of Latin America, as a major global partner of Missouri in the exchange of goods and the migration of people.