Claim: Melvin Earl Cummings became Professor of Sculpture at the Mark Hopkins Institute, and was appointed Instructor in Modeling (and later promoted to Assistant Professor) in the University of California, Berkeley's School of Architecture, a public research university in Berkeley, California, in 1946.
Evidence: In addition, in 1906 he was appointed Instructor in Modeling (and later promoted to Assistant Professor) in the University of California, Berkeley's School of Architecture, which position he held until his death.