Wartburg College has received a $63,725 grant from a Madison-based organization that funds programs to improve students’ academic success.

Wartburg was among 28 programs and organizations in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin —the only four-year institution in Iowa — to be awarded a grant by the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corporation’s College Success program.

The $4.5 million program for two-year, four-year and technical schools supports efforts to mentor, tutor and advise students who are from low-income backgrounds, of color, or the first in a family to attend college.

The grant will help fund Wartburg’s CAP+ (College Achievement Program Plus) initiative with 15 upper-class students helping 30 of their first-year counterparts make the transition to college life.

“The program goes the entire year and has several events and programs that students will attend, in addition to meeting with a mentor once a week,” said TJ Warren, Wartburg’s Pathways Center associate for vocation and mentoring.

CAP+ topics include time management, test-preparation techniques, information literacy, note taking, financial management, stress reduction and other pertinent matters.

Great Lakes has allocated $88 million to academic improvement programs since 2006.