Wellington Reiter

Reiter was Dean at ASU when an African-American Associate Professor, Theresa Cameron, was fired by the ASU President, Michael Crow in 2007, for the relatively minor misdemeanour of plagiarizing parts of class syllabi from colleagues after returning to work after medical leave and being given classes for which she was unprepared. The Dean and the President, in documented email correspondence, did not support her case, against advice from the Faculty Senate which also ruled on two other minor claims. Cameron filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix seeking an injunction 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 (the Americans with Disabilities Act), gender or race. She alleged her support for a minority colleague, and an earlier appeal to Reiter about her below-average salary, compounded workplace discrimination. Cameron lost the case against ASU on appeal in May, 2011.

Reiter graduated with a B. Arch. from Tulane University in 1981, and an M. Arch. from the Harvard University School of Design in 1986. He founded a consultancy, Urban Instruments (1994-2003), and was Professor of Practice at MIT (1990-2003). He was Dean of the School of Design at Arizona State University (2003-2008). From 2008-2010 he was President of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC),, before returning to ASU in 2011, serving in a variety of roles, currently as 'Senior Adviser to the President'.

Wellington "Duke" Reiter (1957—) , FAIA is an architect and urban designer, and a Senior Adviser at Arizona State University.