The first full-time provost of BYU has been named, and appointments of three vice presidents and two assistants to the president have been announced.

The appointments are effective July 1, when President-designate Rex E. Lee takes office.Bruce C. Hafen, president of Ricks College, 1978-1985, and dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU since 1985, was named provost June 21 and will coordinate the work of all BYU vice presidents and share with the president, under Lee's direction, overall responsibility for the university.

Hafen earned his bachelor's degree from Dixie College and his juris doctorate from the University of Utah. Following a four-year stint with a Salt Lake law firm, Hafen was named assistant to then BYU Pres. Dallin H. Oaks in 1971. Hafen assisted in the establishment of the BYU law school and was a charter member of its faculty. He has been published widely in scholarly journals on legal issues pertaining to the family and the Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court has relied on some of his writings.

Stan L. Albrecht, dean of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, will become academic vice president and associate provost.

Albrecht is considered a leader in research on social impact assessment. He was appointed to a U.S. congressional panel to study options for basing MX missiles. He joined the BYU faculty in 1974.

He completed his undergraduate studies in sociology at BYU and his graduate work at the University of Kentucky and Washington State University. He joined the BYU faculty in 1974 after four years at Utah State University.

He succeeds Jae R. Ballif, who has served nine years as provost and academic vice president. Ballif will return to teaching and research in the physics department.

Dee F. Andersen will continue as administrative vice president.

Andersen, a certified public accountant, became BYU administrative vice president in 1984.

A 1953 graduate of Utah State University, where he earned a degree in accounting, Andersen is a certified public accountant and has served as controller and vice president of administrative services at the University of Utah.

His professional assignments have included serving as planning coordinator and assistant to the First Presidency, executive administrator to the Presiding Bishopric, and managing director of the Church's computer and communications equipment operations, and the Church's associate commissioner of education.

Paul H. Thompson, dean of the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management, will become vice president for development and university relations, a new position at the university.

Thompson, dean of the School of Management since 1984, is known for his expertise in organizational behavior and career management.

He is a co-author of "Organization and People: Readings, Cases, and Exercises in Organizational Behavior," now in its third edition, and "Novations: Strategies for Career Management," and has published numerous articles in academic and business journals.

A University of Utah graduate, Thompson earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1969. He remained there as an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Business until 1973, when he joined the BYU faculty.

Before becoming dean, he was chairman of the department of organizational behavior and was assistant dean of the Graduate School of Management.

Ronald G. Hyde, assistant to the president for university relations, will become executive assistant to the president.

Hyde joined the BYU administration in 1958 as alumni fund director. He has since served as executive director of the Alumni Association, special assistant to the president for development and alumni relations, assistant executive vice president for university relations, and assistant to the president for university relations.

Hyde earned his bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Idaho and his master's degree in business management at BYU.

Eugene H. Bramhall will continue as assistant to the president and general counsel.

Bramhall, a former partner in an Oakland, Calif., law firm became associate general counsel at BYU in 1977. He was named assistant to the president and general counsel in 1986.

Bramhall earned his bachelor's degree in business administration and his law degree at the University of California at Berkeley.