{"product_id":"9781942134350","title":"Good Fortune Next Time: Life, Death, Irony, and the Administration of Very Small Colleges","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There may never have been a funnier or more honest account of life in higher education.\"—Jonathan Larsen, former editor of \u003ci\u003eHigh Times \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Will Wootton reminds us of the joys and the value of small liberal arts colleges [and] why we should fight—as he did mightily—for their survival.\" —Dr. Paul LeBlanc, President and CEO of Southern New Hampshire University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Wootton, at various junctures in his life, has been a horse wrangler in Colorado, a sous-chef in southern Vermont, and the editor of a Chinese-English newspaper in Boston. While \u003ci\u003eGood Fortune Next Time \u003c\/i\u003e touches on these endeavors, its real focus is on the joys and tribulations of administering small liberal arts colleges in New England. This literary memoir tracks Wootton's twenty-nine- year odyssey through the halls of academia, ending with his six years as president of Sterling College in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, where he paces back and forth on the \"porch of worry,\" coaxing the small but beloved college back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eWill Wootton \u003c\/b\u003e served as President of Sterling College from 2006 to 2012. Before then, he was Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Montserrat College of Art, and for nineteen years he was at Marlboro College. Wootton has published articles in the \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education \u003c\/i\u003e and recently a chapter from \u003ci\u003eGood Fortune Next Time \u003c\/i\u003e in the \u003ci\u003eSanta Fe Writers Project\u003c\/i\u003e . He and his wife Lulu live in Craftsbury Common, Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mandel Vilar Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052575342832,"sku":"9781942134350","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781942134350_p0.jpg?v=1763758105","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781942134350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}