It’s not a joke. From the article: “the number of Yale’s administrators today exceeds the number of faculty — 5,066 compared to 4,937”
From https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts, undergrad enrollment is 4,664. Wow.
A quick google shows that Yale has 7,357 graduate students enrolled for the 2020-2021 academic year. While the number of administrative faculty ballooning like this is absurd (one is reminded of the University of California system building a new billion dollar[0] campus _solely for administrators_), it makes more sense in the context of ~12,000 students, and ~5,000 faculty.
[0] - I don't recall the exact number off of the top of my head, all I can remember was that it seemed extravagant and absurd.
Those generate tremendous needs for administrative support, and won't necessarily see a single undergraduate.