CRAFTSBURY COMMON, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont's smallest four-year college has named its new president.

Forty-four-year-old Matthew Derr is joining Sterling College in the fall.

Derr helped lead an alumni capital campaign that raised about $15 million to revive Antioch College in Ohio, which reopened last year.

Derr received a degree in history from Antioch in 1989. He served as interim president of the college before the reopening. Before that, he was associate head of the Walnut Hill School, a boarding school near Boston.

He succeeds Will Wootton, who is retiring. Wootton has been president since 2006.

The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/IH2mh8 ) Sterling has an enrollment of about 100 students. Its hands-on environmental focus emphasizes mastering an ax and crosscut saw; growing food; and taking winter camping trips without tents.

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Information from: The Burlington Free Press, http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com