Richard Jung

Head of School Emeritus, The Bullis School
Former Executive Director, The Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW)

For more than a half a century, Dick Jung has had a distinguished education career, starting as a high school English teacher and Department Chair, then education policy researcher, followed by a 30+ career leading independent and charter schools, and most recently creating a pioneering multi-media biography of a prominent education leader at Stanford University, Michael Kirst: An Uncommon Academic.

As Head of the Bullis School in a Maryland suburb of D.C. for 11 years, Dick helped the school nearly double its enrollment and raised nearly $25 million. During his tenure, the school became one of the most sought-after independent schools in the nation’s capital. Later, as the Principal of the SEED Public Charter School in Southeast D.C., the country’s first urban public college-prep boarding school, Dick helped establish the school’s first college counseling program.

As the founder and senior partner of Education Access Strategies (EAS) specializing in executive searches and related services for independent schools, he assisted more than 60 schools and non-profits in finding heads of school, filling other leadership positions, and upgrading their Boards and fund-raising work.

As the Executive Director for the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington assisting 78 of the leading independent schools in the D.C. area, Dick led successful efforts to reverse a decade-long decline in the organization’s membership and establish strong partnerships with other associations.

Dick has served on scores of school and association boards in leadership positions, including the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS), Association of Independent  Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW), Beauvoir, Browne Academy, the Diener School, and the Elsie W. Stoke Charter School.  He has also served his alma mater as a member of the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) Chancellor’s Council, and as the creator of its UMSL in DC Internship Program.

Dick has continued to teach high school and middle school students’ literature and writing, starting in traditional public schools in St. Louis and more recently in independent and charter schools in D.C.  His independent high school teaching has included at the John Burroughs School in St. Louis and several independent and charter schools in the DC area including at the Bullis School, DeMatha High School, the SEED School.  He also serves as a  volunteer teach and assistant at St. Albans Church in its evening education program and Children’s Chapel.

In recent years he has assisted with students in independent and public schools in completing their applications to colleges as well as preparing them for the written parts of their SAT and ACT testing.

Dick holds a doctorate and a master’s degree from Stanford University in education policy; a master’s degree in linguistics from Ball State University; and a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. In 2019, UMSL awarded him an Honorary Doctorate degree when delivering the Commencement Address at the Graduation Ceremony for the College of Education, College of Nursing, and School of Social Work. More recently UMSL honored Dick with its 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Now in his mid-70’s, Dick remains an avid cyclist and has recently founded and leads the Cosmos Club Cycling Group.  He and his wife have lived for most of the past four decades in the Washington, D.C. area.