-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Bmqol5C3+xg54CO6ebddQDdufo8TNhkZ3BGGTyABOJADSh3U+5B8qk1f6+BpQsho c75zFtS/A4dQEhEdC/RU5A== 0001209191-08-058468.txt : 20081103 0001209191-08-058468.hdr.sgml : 20081103 20081103193955 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001209191-08-058468 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20081030 FILED AS OF DATE: 20081103 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20081103 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: APOLLO GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000929887 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-EDUCATIONAL SERVICES [8200] IRS NUMBER: 860419443 STATE OF INCORPORATION: AZ FISCAL YEAR END: 0831 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4615 EAST ELWOOD ST CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85040 BUSINESS PHONE: 6029665394 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4615 E ELWOOD STREET CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85040 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SPERLING JOHN G CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001237503 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-25232 FILM NUMBER: 081158896 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 480 966 5394 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4615 E ELWOOD ST CITY: PHOENIX STATE: AZ ZIP: 85040 4 1 c76610_4x1.xml MAIN DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION X0303 4 2008-10-30 0000929887 APOLLO GROUP INC APOL 0001237503 SPERLING JOHN G 4025 S. RIVERPOINT PARKWAY PHOENIX AZ 85040 1 1 1 0 Executive Chair of the Board Class A Common Stock 2008-10-30 4 F 0 5525 69.64 D 14805638 D Class A Common Stock 2158886 I Aurora Foundation Class A Common Stock 1357339 I JGS Irrevocable Trust Class A Common Stock 585974 I JGS Revocable Trust Represents shares of the Issuer's Class A common stock withheld to satisfy the Reporting Person's tax withholding obligation upon the vesting of restricted stock units ("RSUs") and the issuance of the underlying shares of Class A common stock. Includes 37,500 shares of the Issuer's Class A common stock subject to RSUs granted on July 3, 2007 that will be issued incrementally as those RSUs vest over a defined service period. By self as the trustee of the Aurora Foundation dated May 22, 1997. By self as co-trustee and beneficiary of the John Sperling 1994 Irrevocable Trust dated April 27, 1994. By self as trustee and beneficiary of the John G. Sperling Revocable Trust dated January 31, 1995. Exhibit Index: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney /s/ Joseph L. D'Amico for John G. Sperling 2008-11-03 EX-24 2 c76610_24.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY Power Of Attorney

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Joseph L. D’Amico, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Apollo Group, Inc. (the “Company”) and Diane Thompson, the Company’s Chief Human Resources Officer and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an executive officer of the Company and/or a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, any and all Form 4, Form 5 and other reports required to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 4, Form 5 or other required report and timely file such report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Form 4, Form 5 or other reports with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 3rd day of November, 2008.

/s/ John Sperling                                                      

Signature

John Sperling                                                           
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