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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001459417-24-000042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001459417"
company_name: "2U, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T03:32:51.862435+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# 2U appoints Ivona Smith to Board of Directors; monthly fee of $30,000

## Summary
- Board increased to nine members; Ivona Smith appointed as Class II Director effective May 9, 2024.
- Smith's term expires at 2025 Annual Meeting; she will not serve on any Board committee initially.
- Compensation: $30,000 monthly fee under Independent Director Agreement, prorated for first partial month.
- No material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed under Item 404(a).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001459417-24-000042
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001459417
- company_name: 2U, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1459417/000145941724000042/0001459417-24-000042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1459417/000145941724000042/twou-20240509.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001459417-24-000042
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001459417-24-000042.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ivona Smith was appointed as Class II Director at 2U, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: On May 9, 2024, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of 2U, Inc. (the “Company”) increased its size to nine members in accordance with the Company’s Eighth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, and appointed Ivona Smith as a Class II Director to fill the vacancy created by such increase in size, both effective as of May 9, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1459417/000145941724000042/0001459417-24-000042-index.htm

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