As diversity, equity and inclusion efforts play a central and increasingly embattled role in the strategy and resources of higher education, reparation is rarely offered as a pathway for transforming higher education. Together,through engaging with the text  Reparative Universities, we will work together to come to terms with diversity and what its failures tell us about the colonial logics of higher education and think together about how reparative actions may intervene to unsettle entrenched ways of knowing and being within universities.