Eight new items in the current Monday Map update, which was delayed a day because of the MLK holiday. Four new states — Tennessee, New Mexico, Utah, and North Carolina — have been added to the map this week, bringing the total for the academic year to twenty-seven.

January 17: Weeks after local high school students staged a protest at Chicago mayor Richard Daley’s offices, the city’s Public Library Board announced that a new public library would be established in the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex. Altgeld had been without a library since a pipe burst in the old facility nearly a year ago.

January 15: The state student association serving North Carolina’s seventeen public colleges and universities has launched a petition drive aimed at stopping a planned $200 statewide tuition hike.

January 14: A dozen students at the university of New Mexico took a petition bearing more then 400 names to the offices of the UNM president. The students were asking that a ban on smoking near UNM’s dorms be delayed for two years.

January 14: Students from a high school located at Bronx Community College marched across the BCC campus to protest the planned relocation of their school. BCC, which has seen a dramatic increase in enrollment since the 2008 economic crisis, says it no longer has room for the high school.

January 13: Students at the University of Tennessee staged a protest that threatened to erupt into riot after football coach Lane Kiffin announced his resignation. Kiffin had been in his position for just fourteen months.

January 13: Fifty students at Georgia’s Albany State University demonstrated outside university president Everette Freeman’s office, calling for his resignation after the forced resignation of a popular student affairs administrator.

January 12: Students protested at a Hamden, Connecticut school board meeting, calling for the reinstatement of teacher Bai Haiyan. Haiyan, a Chinese national, faces deportation as a result of her dismissal.

January 12: The student government of Utah State University announced plans to launch a classroom campaign against budget cuts planned for the 2010-11 academic year.