Carine M. Feyten

Carine M. Feyten serves as the chancellor and president of Texas Woman's University. With campuses in Denton, Dallas, and Houston, Dr. Feyten oversees a public university that enrolls more than 15,200 students, employs more than 1,700 faculty and staff, runs on an annual operating budget that exceeds $256 million, and provides an annual economic impact of more than $721 million.
Chancellor Feyten's style of servant leadership and her holistic approach to education strongly align with the mission of the university and the needs of the students that TWU serves. She uses the triple bottom line framework — giving equal billing to people, profits, and the planet — when setting her priorities. She recently committed personal funds to seed the Integrated Health and Wellbeing Initiative that will promote students' mental and physical health. She also has set a goal to make TWU one of the best colleges to work for as measured by The Chronicle of Higher Education. She credits the entire TWU community in the university's achievements during her first two years of leadership, including: 1) an historic gift; 2) substantial state funding to start a center for women in business and other much-needed capital projects; 3) new degrees that support the growing needs in informatics and health informatics; 4) new strategic partnerships; 5) the establishment of an innovation fund; and 6) the launching of a comprehensive university-wide strategic plan.
Dr. Feyten currently serves on the CEO Council for the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce and will join the commerce’s board in 2017. Prior to coming to TWU, she was dean of the College of Education, Health and Society at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She also served in various leadership positions at the University of South Florida in Tampa for more than 20 years. An internationally recognized consultant, speaker and scholar in the field of language learning, teaching methodologies and the integration of technology in education, Dr. Feyten has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. She also has delivered keynote addresses in Portugal, Brazil, and Belgium, and has done consulting work for the International Baccalaureate Organization in places such as Wales and the Czech Republic.
Dr. Feyten holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Education focused on Second Language Acquisition from the University of South Florida, and an M.A. in English, Dutch and Education and a B.A. in Germanic Philology, both from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. A native of Belgium, she is fluent in five languages.