Probably tenure-related. She was an Assistant Professor, which is traditionally non-tenured, but probably tenure-track; most likely, she was up for tenure soon. She talks to another professor who was "since promoted". A professorial promotion procedure has quite a bit of bureaucratic inertia, and so I imagine it has to have been already on the books by this point. So let's say that's two professors up for tenure, imagine the following situation:
The email reset happens, and Prof. Jass first posts to FB about it, then goes poking around in the emails of Mr. President (Docking) and Ms. Vice-President (Caldwell), probably to find out what's up with the tenure dossiers. She finds that Ms. VP is looking to hatchet some junior faculty she doesn't like, including her friend (and possibly herself), and she finds that the President is discussing some presidential stuff. Someone in this is alleging that Jass saw material protected by attorney-client privilege, so if we connect one dot too many, we can say that one of the "academic staff in need of mentoring and improvement" was the subject of an inquiry by the president concerning how he should treat public/personal relations with a member academic staff. Jass has lunch with her friend and says, "hey, remember that email breach? Well, I got this Mr. President's email. He's gonna accept Ms. VP's recommendation that they deny you (and me) tenure. But after class he's secretly slipping Adjunct Professor X the tenure track."
[alternatively, the "crookedness" could be denying tenure for purely economic reasons, while giving everything the color of academic grounds. But that's boring]
An even better scenario: The "whistleblower" Professor was the one with the President. Ms. VP is furious that Mr. President is endangering the college's integrity, and fires off an angry email, relating the problems that such an event has for the promotion procedure, and using some choice words to describe the whistleblower. Prof. Jass has lunch with the whistleblower.
However it happens, Ms. Vice President takes a job somewhere else soon after.
The possibilities are endless, and we'll see how far the college collaborates in the investigation, and how hard they try to keep those emails confidential. Academics are notorious gossips.
The professor, since promoted, learned this during a lunch meeting with Jass on May 3 at an Adrian cafe. The two talked of academic staff in need of improvement and mentoring, Jass revealed the document on her cell phone, and told her associate it was from the accounts of Docking and Caldwell.
"During the conversation, Jass commented to (the professor) that Caldwell did not like her and that Docking was 'crooked,'" states the report, obtained this week through a Freedom of Information Act request
"Based on the tone used... (the fellow professor) stated that she felt like the information was being downloaded for blackmail although this was never verbalized."