Edited sentence: After spending her entire childhood in foster care, Dr.Cameron passed away in 2012.Cameron put herself through college and eventually obtained her PhD in Design from Harvard University in 1991.Cameron sued ASU for discrimination, but lost the case against ASU in May, 2011.Cameron was the first African-American woman to be awarded tenure in the College of Design when she achieved that accomplishment in 2000.Cameron's firing is the only known case of a tenured faculty member being fired for using another instructor's syllabus without attribution.Crow fired Dr.District Court in Phoenix seeking an injunction and other relief against the Arizona Board of Regents and Arizona State University, alleging violations of federal civil rights and employment laws that make it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of disability, gender or race.Her childhood experience is chronicled in her book Foster Care Odyssey in America: A Black Girl's Story published in 2002.On September 7, 2007, ASU President Michael M.Theresa Cameron filed suit on August 13, 2006, in the U.Theresa Cameron, an Associate Professor with tenure, for "plagiarism of syllabi" and two other charges