To reworld the university is to engage in intentional practices that enable the flourishing of racialized peoples - students, faculty, and staff - while simultaneously dismantling the colonial logic at the bedrock of the academy. We see reworlding generally, and coalition-building specifically, as a means to disrupt the current eurocentric worldview/order that dominates higher education. 

We begin by arguing that anti-racist coalition building, grounded in a vision of reworlding, holds the potential to break the exploitation of racialized students within the academy, by fundamentally challenging the historical foundations of white supremacy in the modern university. We next turn to the key role that racialized students play in institutional transformation. For true anti-racist coalition building to become realized, we argue that racialized student mobilizers must be recognized, centered, and compensated through new forms of sustainable academic infrastructure. In the context of universities, a “student mobilizer” is a student undertaking an undergraduate or graduate degree, while they are actively leading pedagogical initiatives that mobilizes marginalized knowledges, serves to reform inequalities in teaching and learning and increases opportunities for racialized students within the university.

 

In this effort, we argue, that an “equity broker” can also play a key role. We define an “equity broker” as a university faculty or staff member who actively supports the equity leadership of racialized students in a manner not entirely dissimilar to those who act as an institutional “sponsor” (Hewlett 2013) or “champion” (Henry et al 2017) of racialized and Indigenized faculty. In the final two parts of the chapter, we deepen these arguments with a fuller discussion on  the ethical and material foundations necessary for equity brokers to learn from and with racialized student leaders, in coalitional efforts to reworld the university.