Doane College recently selected the 2008 recipients of The Senator Hugh Butler Academic Leadership Scholarship, one of Doane's highest academic merit scholarships awarded to entering first-year students.
Students are selected for this full-tuition scholarship through a competitive selection process. To be eligible, students must have a minimum 3.60 unweighted high school grade point average and score 30 or higher on the ACT (1320 or higher on the SAT's Critical Reading and Math sections).
The following students are recipients of the Butler Academic Leadership Scholarship:
| Student/Hometown | High School |
| Laura Jacob, Forest Lake, Minn. | Forest Lake HS |
| Curtis Mackie, Seward | Lincoln Southwest HS |
| Rachel Kluthe, Wakefield | Wakefield HS |
| Sarah Pracht, Broken Bow | Broken Bow HS |
| Kathryn Michael, Tulsa, Okla. | Jenks HS |
| Elizabeth Tvrdy, Wahoo | Wahoo Bishop Neumann HS |
| Troy Edmison, Gretna | Gretna HS |
| Timothy Burge, Grant | Perkins County HS |
| Nicholas (Nick) Cooley, Morrill | Morrill HS |