Sure you’ve heard of students being expelled for plagiarism, but professors?

Dr. Theresa Cameron, the first African American woman to be awarded tenure at the Arizona State University’s College of Design, alleges that she was falsely accused of plagiarizing her syllabi, which led to the termination of her tenure and employment. She was fired by ASU Prez Michael Crow despite the fact that the ASU Faculty Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure unanimously decided that the accusation was not substantiated enough to merit ceasing tenure and despite the fact that a white professor accused of a similar offense was kept on staff in 2004.

But Cameron, a Harvard University graduate, is not taking her termination lying down. Yesterday she filed a lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents; President Michael Crow; departing Dean of the ASU College of Design, Wellington "Duke" Reiter; Associate Dean Kenneth Brooks; and the former director of the College's School of Planning, Hemalata Dandekar, for discriminatory termination of employment.

PR Newswire reported that Rev. Oscar Tillman, president of the Maricopa County Chapter of the NAACP, called the firing of Dr. Cameron an outrage, saying, "This is one of several incidents involving what we believe to be disparate treatment of minority faculty and students at ASU. The NAACP has been made aware at the national level of the circumstances involving Dr. Cameron. The fact that a white professor remains a tenured faculty member while a black tenured professor is fired over something the ASU Faculty Senate saw as unworthy of termination is deeply troubling."

Props to Dr. Cameron and the NAACP for showing ASU what’s what.