This Fall 1997 Enrollment and Staffing Report by the State of Washington Board for Community and Technical Colleges includes information on enrollments, student demography, selected program student characteristics, state-supported course enrollment, contract-supported course enrollment, staff, and individual college data. Findings indicate that (1) the Washington community and technical colleges had less than a one-percent increase in enrollment since 1996, probably due to changes in welfare policy and the strong economy; (2) a majority of state-supported students were enrolled full-time; (3) Forty-seven percent of state FTEs (full-time equivalent students) were generated by students enrolled for workforce training purposes, 40% by students preparing to transfer, 8% by ESL or literacy students, and 6% by students for consumer homemaking or unspecified purposes; (4) the racial composition of the student population was more diverse than that of the state as a whole; (5) the proportion of female students was greater than the state average; (6) the median age, 27.6 years, remained the same as last year; (7) the number of new students increased by 2.6%; (8) like last year, the full-time faculty provided the majority of instruction; and (9) special program enrollments included more high school students than unemployed workers. (YKH)