About Us
Richard Jung, Ed. D.
Most recently, Dr. Jung founded and serves as a Partner for Education Access Strategies, LLC, which assists independent schools and other non-profits in Head of School and executive searches as well as provides strategic planning and related consulting services. Over the past two years alone, Dr. Jung has assisted with over a dozen successful Head of School/Principal searches as well as several successful and ongoing strategic planning efforts.
Previously, Dr. Jung served as Head of School for the SEED School in Washington, D.C., the nation's first inner city college-preparatory public boarding school. SEED represents Dr. Jung coming full circle in leading some of our nation's finest college-preparatory schools. As Principal of the John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri, he provided leadership to one of the nation's most selective independent day schools. At the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, Dr. Jung revitalized the school and redefined its college-preparatory mission as a "caring, challenging community."
Dr. Jung retired as Headmaster of the Bullis School after eleven years of service and seeing the school’s enrollment more than double. With the completion of a $3.2 million capital campaign in 1998, Bullis opened the Marriott Family Library. Dr. Jung then led the school into a second successful capital campaign to raise $13 million for the construction of the Blair Family Center for the Arts and significant expansion of the school's endowment.
Dr. Jung earned his doctorate from Stanford University. He has also held several prominent policy positions, including Research Director for the Presidentially-appointed National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children and Senior Analyst at the National Institute of Education.
Dr. Jung has served on numerous boards, including serving as Board Chair for the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington and as an officer for the National Association of Principals of Schools for Girls. He has worked with several boards on governance, hiring, compensation, fundraising, long-range planning and other issues. He also helped select the first 20 charter schools for the D.C. Public School Charter Board and continues to offer a variety of consulting services to the burgeoning charter school movement in the nation’s capital.
Dr. Jung recently addressed Board members, Chairs of Search Committees, and others on the topic of “Getting Started” at the National Association Independent Schools (NAIS) seminar The Head Search: A Board’s First and Foremost Duty as well as NAIS’s Aspiring Heads at their concluding forum So You Want to Throw Your Hat into the Ring. NAIS President Patrick Bassett organized and hosted both of these sessions at the 2007 NAIS Annual Conference.