Over the years, Aldridge has advised university presidents and foreign ministries of education, while taking a leading role in numerous higher education panels and various academic conferences across the country and around the world, including a special delegation to Chile and Brazil led by former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. She served as both chair and co-chair of the US-China Forum on Distance Education, as well as co-chair of the Department of Defense Task Force on Distance Learning Standards. Aldridge was an elected board member of the International Academy of Business Disciplines, and a member of the NASULGC-Sloan National Commission on Online Learning. and later in 2015, to the Marine Corps University Board of Visitors.