The Big Ten Academic Alliance Summit Series on Advancing Women in STEM is a three-year multi-university initiative to expand the participation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick (RUNB), the Summit Series will convene leaders from Big Ten Academic Alliance Universities to further best practices for the recruitment and retention of junior faculty, post-doctoral, and graduate and undergraduate women, with a special focus on underrepresented minority women in STEM. Designed to address the lack of gender and racial diversity in the STEM labor force within and beyond the university sector, the Summit Series presents a unique opportunity to create synergistic exemplary practices through continued collaboration within the Big Ten Academic Alliance that represents leading institutions.The first summit will take place in June 6-8, 2019 at Douglass Residential College, the women’s college at Rutgers-New Brunswick, and will focus on the recruitment and retention of undergraduate and minority women in the STEM fields.