---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-079648"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APEI"
cik: "0001201792"
company_name: "AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC"
filed_at: "2023-07-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T10:28:20.590046+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Jeff Tognola steps down as EVP & Chief Experience Officer at American Public Education effective July 21, 2023

## Summary
- Jeff Tognola to leave role as EVP, Chief Experience Officer on July 21, 2023.
- Severance provided under the Executive Severance Plan as a without-cause termination.
- No successor or replacement named in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-079648
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APEI
- cik: 0001201792
- company_name: AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC
- filed_at: 2023-07-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1201792/000110465923079648/0001104659-23-079648-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1201792/000110465923079648/tm2320836d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-079648.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jeff Tognola departed as Executive Vice President, Chief Experience Officer at AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION INC.
  - Action: step down
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Chief Experience Officer
  source text: Jeff Tognola determined on July 3, 2023 that Mr. Tognola will step down from his role as Executive Vice President, Chief Experience Officer, effective July 21, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1201792/000110465923079648/0001104659-23-079648-index.htm

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