If the headlines are any measure, it's been a dismal year for racial harmony on campus, with controversies erupting in Boulder, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; and Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Jesus Trevino, associate provost and head of the Center for Multicultural Excellence at the University of Denver, says "unfortunately, it always seems to take a crisis" to focus attention on the stresses and strains of students' daily interactions with each other. Instead of commissions, head-shaking and hand-wringing, he says "what is really needed is a different model for engaging the entire [academic] community." The most widely accepted model for evaluating campus climate--developed nearly a decade ago by Drs. Sylvia Hurtado, Jeff Milem, Alma Clayton-Pederson and Walter Allen--posits a four-dimensional framework: (1) an institution's historical legacy of inclusion or exclusion; (2) the compositional diversity; (3) the psychological climate; and (4) the behavioral climate. Milem says these dimensions are not discrete. "You've got to have all of them. For instance, in order to bring students together in diverse groups, you have got to begin with sufficient compositional diversity." While campuses appear to be stepping up their efforts to transform the college-going experience on a broad front, experts in this area send up a warning flag. Even if they succeed in their most ambitious efforts, they caution, it will not eliminate conflict.