CUMU Conference 2018

The University of Nebraska at Omaha's (UNO) Metropolitan Omaha Education Consortium (MOEC), in its 30th year of collaborative work in public education, has reinvented itself in an effort to meet a shared vision that "all students in the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area receive an exceptional education that provides multiple pathways into meaningful careers and a high quality of life in the region and beyond." Twelve school districts and three postsecondary institutions have joined forces to "set transformational goals for student success, launch initiatives focused on dramatically improving student outcomes, and strengthen the connections between our education systems and communities."
The change journey has honored the excellent past work of MOEC but has significantly increased expectations of the members and the community. The first year of the new work established meaningful, measurable, manageable metrics as guideposts to collective work by preschool through postsecondary partners. Specific targets of the first year's efforts included increasing the number of students who completed FAFSA as a precursor of college entry as well as initiating work designed to improve math success for high school and college students.
The new emphasis has augmented the work of traditional task forces by forming temporary strategic work groups designed to focus on specific goal attainment.