Is this the solution or another mandate?

The College Fix reports.

Interracial roommates: A better solution to the campus diversity ‘problem’?

Rather than mandate “diversity training” via workshops and/or coursework, a better way to increase racial harmony on campus is to live with a roommate of a different race.

So argues New York University’s Jonathan Zimmerman in the Washington Post.

Despite “[h]undreds of schools offer[ing] diversity training and other programming, aimed at changing the overall racial climate on campus,” research has shown they have little or no effect, he says. (Indeed, the authors of one recent study, published in the Harvard Business Review, point out that efforts to increase racial harmony “can backfire,” leading to “increased hostility rather than less.”)