Berman, the vice provost for online education and academic innovation, will join Meghan Chapple, the director of the Office of Sustainability, as a co-chair of the initiative. Chapple took the position this fall after Dave Lawlor, GW’s former senior associate vice president for finance, left for a job at the University of California, Davis.

“I believe ITF can be an important catalyst as an engine to help jump-start innovative initiatives and spur creative thinking on campus,” Berman said in a release. “It will be great to work with Meghan Chapple on this important program.”

GW launched the ITF in 2009 aiming to identify $60 million in annual savings and new revenue.

The University had introduced six money-saving or revenue-generating ideas roughly every six months until this fall, when the program paused to focus on implementing ideas that had already been presented.

Last year, officials scaled back their expectations for the program, deciding not to include $25 million as new funds for GW.

Berman, who first came to campus to lead the law school, was appointed to a new position for online learning in the provost’s cabinet in 2012 as the University has looked to online programs to help make up for revenue lost from declining graduate enrollment.