The Wyoming Community College Commission (WCCC) collaborates with Wyoming's seven community colleges to provide educational experiences that strengthen, support and enrich communities and prepare students to successfully meet life's challenges and recognize and profit from opportunities. Wyoming's seven community colleges provide affordable, accessible and lifelong education. The Wyoming Community College Commission supports the colleges through advocacy, coordination and collaboration. In partnership with the colleges, the Commission is committed to improving quality of life through learning. Wyoming's seven community colleges successfully served more than 26,000 students during the 2008-09 academic year. While a common goal is to earn an associate's degree or transfer to another institution, other important goals of Wyoming's community college students included earning a certificate, upgrading current or developing new job skills, and personal enrichment. Fiscal year 2009 embodied a period of collaborative and concentrated effort among the community college commission, colleges and business and community stakeholders to develop the statewide community college Strategic Plan. The Final strategic plan will be available October 29, 2009 and subsequently presented to the Community College Planning Task Force, legislators and a representative of the Governor's office in November 2009. The 2009 annual report format has been realigned for integration with the state interests identified in the Strategic Plan. This annual report provides updated performance measure information that relate to each of the five state interests and identifies the top priority action items tied to each of the eight strategic objectives that will guide the community college system to better serve state interests. [For the 2008 report, see ED535827.]