The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a three-year grant of $4.4 million from The James Irvine Foundation (www.irvine.org) to manage and evaluate a new career and technical education dual enrollment initiative. The Concurrent Courses: Pathways to College and Careers Initiative aims to strengthen college and career pathways for low-income, academically struggling, and underrepresented students in California by providing them with rigorous, supportive, and career-focused dual enrollment opportunities. The initiative will support six to eight secondary-postsecondary partnerships to be selected through a competitive Request for Proposals process (the Request for Proposals is now closed).