A study was conducted to ascertain the present status of physical education (PE) within the public and technical two-year colleges located in the four western provinces of Canada, the Yukon, and Northwest Territories. Questionnaires were sent to 56 two-year institutions, requesting information on institutional characteristics, PE departmental structure and organization, faculty, department budgets, equipment sharing, secretarial support, curricula, course grading, class length, PE as a graduation requirement, and adapted physical education. Study findings, based on responses from 37 colleges, included the following: (1) only 2 of the responding colleges in Saskatchewan had PE programs; (2) specialist two-year colleges (art colleges, marine colleges, etc.) generally did not have physical education programs; (3) larger institutions employed a higher proportion of part-time PE instructors; (4) full-time instructors generally had a master's degree, while part-time instructors generally had only a bachelor's degree; (5) the instructional load of full-time instructors was normally between 15 and 18 contact hours per week; and (6) generally, two-year college PE departments shared their equipment with other college units. (EJV)